[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3828. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
Whitehouse, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Booker) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby 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. ___.  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, 
     none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 
     this division for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
     Services may be used to terminate the imputed floor policy 
     under section 412.64(h) of title 42, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (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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