114 STAT. 2763A-464 PUBLIC LAW 106-554—APPENDIX F Sec. 123. Study on medicare coverage of routine thyroid screening. Sec. 124. MedPAC study on consumer coalitions. Sec. 125. Study on limitation on State payment for medicare cost-sharing affecting access to services for qualified medicare beneficiaries. Sec. 126. Studies on preventive interventions in primary care for older Americans. Sec. 127. MedPAC study and report on medicare coverage of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation therapy services. Sec. 128. Lifestyle modification program demonstration. TITLE II—RURAL HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENTS Subtitle A—Critical Access Hospital Provisions Sec. 201. Clarification of no beneficiary cost-sharing for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests fiimished by critical access hospitals. Sec. 202. Assistance with fee schedule payment for professional services under allinclusive rate. Sec. 203. Exemption of critical access hospital swing beds from SNF PPS. Sec. 204. Payment in critical access hospitals for emergency room on-call physicians. Sec. 205. Treatment of ambulance services furnished by certain critical access hospitals. Sec. 206. GAO study on certain eligibility requirements for critical access hospitals. Subtitle B—Other Rural Hospitals Provisions Sec. 211. Treatment of rural disproportionate share hospitals. Sec. 212. Option to base eligibility for medicare dependent, small rural hospital program on discharges during two of the three most recently audited cost reporting periods. Sec. 213. Extension of option to use rebased target amounts to all sole community hospitals. Sec. 214. MedPAC analysis of impact of volume on per unit cost of rural hospitals with psychiatric units. Subtitle C—Other Rural Provisions Sec. 221. Assistance for providers of ambulance services in rural areas. Sec. 222. Payment for certain physician assistant services. Sec. 223. Revision of medicare reimbursement for telehealth services. Sec. 224. Expanding access to rural health cUnics. Sec. 225. MedPAC study on low-volume, isolated rural health care providers. TITLE III—PROVISIONS RELATING TO PART A Subtitle A—Inpatient Hospital Services Sec. 301. Revision of acute care hospital payment update for 2001. Sec. 302. Additional modification in transition for indirect medical education (IME) percentage adjustment. Sec. 303. Decrease in reductions for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) pay- ments. Sec. 304. Wage index improvements. Sec. 305. Payment for inpatient services of rehabilitation hospitals. Sec. 306. Pa3anent for inpatient services of psychiatric hospitals. Sec. 307. Payment for inpatient services of long-term care nospitals. Subtitle B—Adjustments to PPS Payments for Skilled Nursing Facilities Sec. 311. Elimination of reduction in skilled nursing facility (SNF) market basket update in 2001. Sec. 312. Increase in nursing component of PPS Federal rate. Sec. 313. Application of SNF consolidated billing requirement limited to part A covered stays. Sec. 314. Adjustment of rehabilitation RUGs to correct anomaly in payment rates. Sec. 315. Establishment of process for geographic reclassification. Subtitle C—Hospice Care Sec. 321. Five percent increase in payment base. Sec. 322. Clarification of physician certification. Sec. 323. MedPAC report on access to, and use of, hospice benefit. Subtitle D—Other Provisions Sec. 331. Relief from medicare part A late enrollment penalty for group buy-in for State and local retirees.
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