Sec. 416. Critical access hospital improvements
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Section 1834(l)(8) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(l)(8) ) is amended— in subparagraph (B)— by striking owned and ; and by inserting (including when such services are provided by the entity under an arrangement with the hospital) after hospital ; and by striking the comma at the end of subparagraph
(B)and all that follows and inserting a period. The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to services furnished on or after January 1, 2021. Section 1820(c)(2) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395i–4(c)(2) ) is amended— in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking provides not more than and inserting subject to subparagraph (F), provides not more than ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: A State may elect to treat a facility, with respect to the designation of the facility for a cost-reporting period, as satisfying the requirement of subparagraph (B)(iii) relating to a maximum number of acute care inpatient beds if the facility elects, in accordance with a method specified by the Secretary and before the beginning of the cost reporting period, to meet the requirement under clause (ii). The requirement under this clause, with respect to a facility and a cost-reporting period, is that the total number of inpatient bed days described in subparagraph (B)(iii) during such period will not exceed 7,300. For purposes of this subparagraph, an individual who is an inpatient in a bed in the facility for a single day shall be counted as one inpatient bed day. The option described in clause
(i)shall not apply to a facility for a cost-reporting period if the facility (for any two consecutive cost-reporting periods during the previous 5 cost-reporting periods) was treated under such option and had a total number of inpatient bed days for each of such two cost-reporting periods that exceeded the number specified in such clause. . The amendments made by paragraph
(1)shall apply to cost-reporting periods beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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- 42 USC 1395i–4(c)(2)
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