Sec. 15003. Five-year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration program
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Section 410A of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 ( Public Law 108–173 ; 42 U.S.C. 1395ww note) is amended— in subsection (a)(5), by striking 5-year extension period and inserting 10-year extension period ; and in subsection (g)— in the subsection heading, by striking and inserting Five-Year ; Ten-Year in paragraph (1), by striking additional 5-year and inserting additional 10-year ; by striking 5-year extension period and inserting 10-year extension period each place it appears; in paragraph (4)(B)— in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting each 5-year period in after hospital during ; and in clause (i), by inserting each applicable 5-year period in after the first day of ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
During the second 5 years of the 10-year extension period, the Secretary shall apply the provisions of paragraph
(4)to rural community hospitals that are not described in paragraph
(4)but are participating in the demonstration program under this section as of December 30, 2014, in a similar manner as such provisions apply to rural community hospitals described in paragraph (4). The Secretary shall, notwithstanding subsection (a)(2) or paragraph
(2)of this subsection, not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, issue a solicitation for applications to select up to the maximum number of additional rural community hospitals located in any State to participate in the demonstration program under this section for the second 5 years of the 10-year extension period without exceeding the limitation under paragraph
(3)of this subsection. In determining which rural community hospitals that submitted an application pursuant to the solicitation under subparagraph
(A)to select for participation in the demonstration program, the Secretary— shall give priority to rural community hospitals located in one of the 20 States with the lowest population densities (as determined by the Secretary using the 2015 Statistical Abstract of the United States); and may consider— closures of hospitals located in rural areas in the State in which the rural community hospital is located during the 5-year period immediately preceding the date of the enactment of this paragraph; and the population density of the State in which the rural community hospital is located. . Subsection
(e)of such section 410A is amended— by striking Not later than 6 months after the completion of the demonstration program under this section and inserting Not later than August 1, 2018 ; and by striking such program and inserting the demonstration program under this section .
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Sec. 15003
Five-year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration program
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