Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 114 Part 5.djvu/610

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114 STAT. 2763A-570 PUBLIC LAW 106-554—APPENDIX F for fiscal year 1999, as reported to the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration as of August 31, 2000, is greater than 0 but less than 1 percent of the State's total amount of expenditures under the State plan for medical assistance during the fiscal year, the DSH allotment for fiscal year 2001 shall be increased to 1 percent of the State's total amount of expenditures under such plan for such assistance during such fiscal year. In subsequent fiscal years, such increased allotment is subject to an increase for inflation as provided in paragraph (3)(A).". (B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— Section 1923(f)(3)(A) (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(f)(3)(A)) is amended by inserting "and paragraph (5)" after "subparagraph (B)". (3) EFFECTIVE DATE.— The amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2) take effect on the date the final regulation required under section 705(a) (relating to the application of an aggregate upper payment limit test for State medicaid spending for inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, nursing facility services, intermediate care facility services for the mentally retarded, and clinic services provided by government facilities that are not State-owned or operated facilities) is published in the Federal Register, (b) ASSURING IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICAID MANAGED CARE PATIENTS.— (1) IN GENERAL.— Section 1932 (42 U.S.C. 1396u-2) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(g) IDENTIFICATION OF PATIENTS FOR PURPOSES OF MAKING DSH PAYMENTS.—Each contract with a managed care entity under section 1903(m) or under section 1905(t)(3) shall require the entity either— "(1) to report to the State information necessary to determine the hospital services provided under the contract (and the identity of hospitals providing such services) for purposes of applying sections 1886(d)(5)(F) and 1923; or "(2) to include a sponsorship code in the identification card issued to individuals covered under this title in order that a hospital may identify a patient as being entitled to benefits under this title.". (2) CLARIFICATION OF COUNTING MANAGED CARE MEDICAID PATIENTS.—Section 1923 (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4) is amended— (A) in subsection (a)(2)(D), by inserting after "the proportion of low-income and medicaid patients" the following: "(including such patients who receive benefits through a managed care entity)"; (B) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting after "a State plan approved under this title in a period" the following: "(regardless of whether such patients receive medical assistance on a fee-for-service basis or through a managed care entity)"; and (C) in subsection (b)(3)(A)(i), by inserting after "under a State plan under this title" the following: "(regardless of whether the services were furnished on a fee-for-service basis or through a managed care entity)". (3) EFFECTIVE DATES.— (A) The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to contracts as of January 1, 2001.