[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5015

   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to expand hospitals 
           eligible for the Medicaid DSH payment adjustment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 13, 2021

  Mr. Higgins of New York (for himself and Mr. Katko) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to expand hospitals 
           eligible for the Medicaid DSH payment adjustment.

    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 ``Medicaid DSH Payment Adjustment 
Fairness Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF HOSPITALS ELIGIBLE FOR THE MEDICAID DSH PAYMENT 
              ADJUSTMENT.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of section 203(a) of 
title II of division CC of Public Law 116-260, subsection (g) of 
section 1923 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4), as amended 
by such section 203(a), is further amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``paragraph (2)(B)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraph (2)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``for certain 
                hospitals'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) in the heading, by striking ``(A) In 
                        general.--''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``described in 
                        subparagraph (B)''; and
                    (C) by striking subparagraph (B).
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