113 STAT. 1501A-324 PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX F Sec. 552. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission studies and reports. Sec. 553. GAO studies, audits, and reports. TITLE VI—MEDICAID Sec. 601. Increase in DSH allotment for certain States and the District of Columbia. Sec. 602. Removal of fiscal year limitation on certain transitional administrative costs assistance. Sec. 603. Modification of the phase-out of payment for Federally-qualified health center services and rural health clinic services based on reasonable costs. Sec. 604. Parity in reimbursement for certain utilization and quality control services; elimination of duplicative requirements for external quality review of medicaid managed care organizations. Sec. 605. Inapplicability of enhanced match under the State children's health insurance program to medicaid DSH payments. Sec. 606. Optional ofeferment of the effective date for outpatient drug agreements. Sec. 607. Making medicaid DSH transition rule permanent. Sec. 608. Medicaid technical corrections. TITLE VII—STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) Sec. 701. Stabilizing the State children's health insurance program allotment form ula. Sec. 702. Increased allotments for territories under the State children's health insurance program. Sec. 703. Improved data collection and evaluations of the State children's health insurance program. Sec. 704. References to SCHIP and State children's health insurance program. Sec. 705. SCHIP technical corrections. TITLE I—PROVISIONS RELATING TO PART A Subtitle A—Adjustments to PPS Payments for Skilled Nursing Facilities SEC. 101. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN HIGH COST PATIENTS. (a) ADJUSTMENT FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX PATIENTS UNTIL ESTABLISHMENT OF REFINED CASE-MIX ADJUSTMENT.—For purposes of computing payments for covered skilled nursing facility services under paragraph (1) of section 1888(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395yy(e)) for such services furnished on or after April 1, 2000, and before the date described in subsection (c), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall increase by 20 percent the adjusted Federal per diem rate otherwise determined under paragraph (4) of such section (but for this section) for covered skilled nursing facility services for RUG—III groups described in subsection (b) furnished to an individual during the period in which such individual is classified in such a RUG—III category. (b) GROUPS DESCRIBED. —The RUG-III groups for which the adjustment described in subsection (a) applies are SE3, SE2, SEl, SSC, SSB, SSA, CC2, CCl, CB2, CBl, CA2, CAl, RHC, RMC, and RMB as specified in Tables 3 and 4 of the final rule published in the Federal Register by the Health Care Financing Administration on July 30, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 41684). (c) DATE DESCRIBED.— For purposes of subsection (a), the date descriibed in this subsection is the later of— (1) October 1, 2000; or (2) the date on which the Secretary implements a refined case mix classification system under section 1888(e)(4)(G)(i)
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