To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain facilities located in areas designated as rural areas before January 1, 2000, qualify as rural health clinics regardless of whether or not such areas remain so designated.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that a facility located in a non-urbanized area so designated by the Bureau of the Census before January 1, 2000, that also satisfies all other applicable conditions, shall qualify as a rural health clinic for purposes of Medicare and SSA title XIX (Medicaid), whether or not such area remains so designated.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2157 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2157

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain 
facilities located in areas designated as rural areas before January 1, 
2000, qualify as rural health clinics regardless of whether or not such 
                      areas remain so designated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2007

   Mr. Johnson of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
   the Committee on Ways and Means, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain 
facilities located in areas designated as rural areas before January 1, 
2000, qualify as rural health clinics regardless of whether or not such 
                      areas remain so designated.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RURAL HEALTH CLINIC QUALIFICATION FOR CERTAIN FACILITIES IN 
              RURAL AREAS DESIGNATED BEFORE MAY 2002.

    (a) In General.--Section 1861(aa)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395x(aa)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``Notwithstanding any other provisions of this paragraph, a 
facility that is located in an area that the Bureau of the Census 
designated before January 1, 2000, as an area that is not an urbanized 
area and that satisfies all other conditions of this paragraph shall 
qualify as a rural health clinic for purposes of this title and title 
XIX, whether or not such area remains so designated.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to rural health clinic services furnished on or after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, with respect to geographic area 
redesignations occurring before, on, or after such date.
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