US Congress House Bill 4553 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-5)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

CARE Act of 2016 Critical Access and Rural Equity Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to specify that, for purposes of determining Medicare payment and reasonable costs for both inpatient and outpatient critical access hospital (CAH) services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall recognize as allowable costs those related to specified emergency, diagnostic, anesthetist, community health, and off-campus clinical services. Furthermore, in determining payment and reasonable costs for both inpatient and outpatient CAH services, CMS shall not disallow payment to a CAH on the basis that such payment offsets the cost of a current permissible health care-related tax imposed on and paid by the CAH. CMS must make specified payment adjustments to account for such a tax. Generally, under current law, a facility must be located beyond a specified driving distance from another hospital or facility in order to be designated as a CAH. The bill specifies that this requirement does not apply with respect to a CAH's off-campus provider-based clinic. Current law further requires a facility to provide certain 24-hour emergency care services as a condition of designation as a CAH. The bill allows CMS to waive this requirement with respect to a facility that coordinates with a nearby facility or hospital that provides such services.

CARE Act of 2016 Critical Access and Rural Equity Act of 2016

Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]
Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-02-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-02-12	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2016-02-12	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2016-02-12	House	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.
2016-02-12	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4553/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4553/BILLS-114hr4553ih.pdf