S.Amdt. 335

SA 335. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mrs. Lincoln, Ms. Stabenow, Mr.
Kerry, Mr. Bingaman, and Mr. Wyden) submitted an amendment intended to
be proposed to amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and
Mr. Baucus) to the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for
job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy
efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and
local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

On page 735, after line 7, add the following:

SEC. 5006. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING RESCISSION OF
CERTAIN MEDICAID REGULATIONS.

It is the sense of the Senate that the following
regulations relating to Medicaid should be rescinded:
(1) Cost limits for public providers.--The final regulation
published on May 29, 2007 (72 Federal Register 29748) and
determined by the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia to have been ``improperly promulgated'',
Alameda County Medical Center, et al., v. Leavitt, et al.,
Civil Action No. 08-0422, Mem. at 4 (D.D.C. May 23, 2008) .
(2) Payments for graduate medical education.--The proposed
regulation published on May 23, 2007 (72 Federal Register
28930).
(3) Medicaid allowable provider taxes.--The final
regulation published on February 22, 2008 (73 Federal
Register 9685).
(4) Rehabilitative services.--The proposed regulation
published on August 13, 2007 (72 Federal Register 45201).
(5) Payments for costs of school administration,
transportation.--The final regulation published on December
28, 2007 (72 Federal Register 73635).
(6) Case management services.--The interim final regulation
published on December 4, 2007 (Federal Register 68077).

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(7) Outpatient hospital services.--The final regulation
published on November 7, 2008 (73 Federal Register 66187).
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