S.Amdt. 3734

SA 3734. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Booker, Mr.
Coons, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Reed) submitted an amendment intended to
be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title II of division B, insert
the following:

SEC. __. PERMANENT EXTENSION OF MEDICARE WAGE IMPUTED FLOOR
POLICY.

Notwithstanding the final rule of the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services entitled ``Medicare Program: Hospital
Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care
Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment
System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2019 Rates; Quality
Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers; Medicare and
Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs
(Promoting Interoperability Programs) Requirements for
Eligible Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, and Eligible
Professionals; Medicare Cost Reporting Requirements; and
Physician Certification and Recertification of Claims'' or
any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall extend the imputed floor policy under section
412.64(h) (including the policy under clause (vi) of such
section), as in effect with respect to discharges during
fiscal year 2018, to discharges occurring on or after October
1, 2018. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall
implement the preceding sentence in a budget-neutral manner
under section 1886(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395ww(d)).
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