[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6336 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6336

To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for a waiver of 
payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain 
 nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities 
                     during the COVID-19 emergency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2020

  Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Banks, and Mr. Budd) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
   Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means, 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 XI of the Social Security Act to provide for a waiver of 
payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain 
 nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities 
                     during the COVID-19 emergency.

    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 ``Increasing Hospital Capacity to 
Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING FOR A WAIVER OF PAYMENT REDUCTIONS UNDER THE MEDICARE 
              AND MEDICAID PROGRAMS FOR CERTAIN NONAPPROVED CAPITAL 
              EXPENDITURES UNDERTAKEN BY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES DURING 
              THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY.

    (a) In General.--Section 1122(d) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320a-1(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or (3)'' after 
        ``paragraph (2)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) No payment reduction shall be made pursuant to paragraph (1) 
with respect to an obligation for a capital expenditure made during the 
emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B).''.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that any State 
requirement relating to the approval of capital expenditures of health 
care facilities located in such State (commonly referred to as 
``certificate of need laws'') should be waived for the duration of the 
emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)(1)(B)).
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