[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5667 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5667

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the way 
beneficiaries are assigned under the Medicare shared savings program by 
    also basing such assignment on services furnished by Federally 
           qualified health centers and rural health clinics.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 7, 2016

    Ms. Jenkins of Kansas (for herself and Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the way 
beneficiaries are assigned under the Medicare shared savings program by 
    also basing such assignment on services furnished by Federally 
           qualified health centers and rural health clinics.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural ACO Provider Equity Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE 
              MEDICARE SHARED SAVINGS PROGRAM.

    Section 1899(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395jjj(c)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``utilization of primary'' and inserting 
        ``utilization of--
            ``(1) in the case of performance years beginning on or 
        after April 1, 2012, primary'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), as added by paragraph (1) of this 
        section, by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
        and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) in the case of performance years beginning on or 
        after January 1, 2018, services provided under this title by a 
        Federally qualified health center or rural health clinic (as 
        those terms are defined in section 1861(aa)), as may be 
        determined by the Secretary.''.
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