[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 138 (Monday, August 20, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3734. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Booker, Mr. 
Coons, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Reed) submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title II of division B, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. PERMANENT EXTENSION OF MEDICARE WAGE IMPUTED FLOOR 
                   POLICY.

       Notwithstanding the final rule of the Centers for Medicare 
     and Medicaid Services entitled ``Medicare Program: Hospital 
     Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care 
     Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment 
     System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2019 Rates; Quality 
     Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers; Medicare and 
     Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs 
     (Promoting Interoperability Programs) Requirements for 
     Eligible Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, and Eligible 
     Professionals; Medicare Cost Reporting Requirements; and 
     Physician Certification and Recertification of Claims'' or 
     any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall extend the imputed floor policy under section 
     412.64(h) (including the policy under clause (vi) of such 
     section), as in effect with respect to discharges during 
     fiscal year 2018, to discharges occurring on or after October 
     1, 2018. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
     implement the preceding sentence in a budget-neutral manner 
     under section 1886(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1395ww(d)).
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