S.Amdt. 3828

SA 3828. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Carper, Mr.
Whitehouse, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Booker) submitted an amendment intended
to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby 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. ___.  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,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this division for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services may be used to terminate the imputed floor policy
under section 412.64(h) of title 42, Code of Federal
Regulations (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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