Medicaid DSH Preservation Act of 2000

Medicaid DSH Preservation Act of 2000 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, with respect to provisions regarding adjustments in payments for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals (DSH), to require DSH allotments for FY 2002 (currently, FY 2003) and succeeding fiscal years to be equal to the allotment for the State for the preceding fiscal year. Sets the DSH allotment for FY 2001 at the FY 2000 level.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2299 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2299

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to continue State 
 Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for fiscal 
             year 2001 at the levels for fiscal year 2000.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 27, 2000

   Mr. L. Chafee (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Helms, Mr. Mack, Mrs. 
Feinstein, Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Grams, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. 
Levin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
                      to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to continue State 
 Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for fiscal 
             year 2001 at the levels for fiscal year 2000.

    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 Preservation Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF MEDICAID DSH ALLOTMENTS AT FY FISCAL YEAR 2000 
              LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001.

    Section 1923(f) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(f)), 
as amended by section 601 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced 
Budget Refinement Act of 1999, as enacted into law by section 
1000(a)(6) of Public Law 106-113 (113 Stat. 1501A-394), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``2002'' and 
                inserting ``2001'';
                    (B) in the matter preceding the table--
                            (i) by striking ``2002'' and inserting 
                        ``2001''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``(and the DSH allotment 
                        for a State for fiscal year 2001 is the same as 
                        the DSH allotment for the State for fiscal year 
                        2000 as determined under the following table)'' 
                        before the semicolon; and
                    (C) in the table in such paragraph, by striking the 
                columns labeled ``FY 01'' and ``FY 02'' relating to 
                fiscal years 2001 and 2002; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``2003'' and 
                inserting ``2002''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``2003'' and 
                inserting ``2002''.
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