To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county under the Medicare Program to provide for more equitable payments under that program to hospitals located in that county.

Provides that, effective for discharges occurring between October 1, 2001, and October 1, 2003, for purposes of making disproportionate share payments with respect to the operating costs of inpatient hospital services to hospitals in Lake County, Indiana, such county is deemed to be located in the Chicago, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.