HR 3565
107th Congress
House
Health
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Nursing Home Security Act of 2001
Introduced: December 20, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 28, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 20, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dec 20, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Nursing Home Security Act of 2001 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to increase by ten percentage points the Federal medical assistance percentage for nursing facility services furnished by a nursing facility in a quarter if: (1) on average during the quarter at least 85 percent of the facility residents are entitled to have payment made for such services under Medicaid; and (2) the State provides satisfactory assurances that additional payments to it resulting from such increase are used exclusively to provide for an increase in payments to such facilities, and do not result in a reduction in aggregate State expenditures for nursing facilities under the State plan.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1