To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to authorize States to impose fees for the initial certification and survey of health care facilities in order to provide for timely certification of these facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Summary

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to declare that nothing shall be construed to prevent States from imposing fees for initial facility certification and survey. Limits such fees to the State's expenses (or average of the expenses) in conducting the certification and survey. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from paying a State for reasonable certification and survey costs to the extent covered by such fees.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 15 December 1995

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 15 December 1995

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 15 December 1995

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.