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A bill to extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a rule regarding graduate medical education under Medicaid and to include a moratorium on the finalization of the outpatient Medicaid rule making similar changes.

Introduced: December 12, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Dec 12, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15249-15250)
Dec 12, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15248-15249)
Dec 12, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 1997 to extend by one year the moratorium on: (1) implementation of a specified rule relating to the federal-state financial partnership under titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)) of the Social Security Act; and (2) the finalization of a certain proposed rule regarding the authority of states to make payments related to graduate medical education (GME payments).

Imposes a one-year moratorium on finalization or implementation of a certain proposed rule regarding the scope of permissible Medicaid payments that redefines outpatient hospitals and specifies methodologies for calculation of the outpatient services upper payment limit.

What's happening now December 12, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15249-15250)

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