PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX F 113 STAT. 1501A-323 TITLE IV—RURAL PROVIDER PROVISIONS Subtitle A—Rural Hospitals Sec. 401. Permitting reclassification of certain urban hospitals as rural hospitals. Sec. 402. Update of standards applied for geographic reclassification for certain hospitals. Sec. 403. Improvements in the critical access hospital (CAH) program. Sec. 404. 5-year extension of medicare dependent hospital (MDH) program. Sec. 405. Rebasing for certain sole community hospitals. Sec. 406. One year sole community hospital payment increase. Sec. 407. Increased flexibility in providing graduate physician training in rural and other areas. Sec. 408. Elimination of certain restrictions with respect to hospital swing bed program. Sec. 409. Grant program for rural hospital transition to prospective payment. Sec. 410. GAO study on geographic reclassification. Subtitle B—Other Rural Provisions Sec. 411. MedPAC study of rural providers. Sec. 412. Expansion of access to paramedic intercept services in rural areas. Sec. 413. Promoting prompt implementation of informatics, telemedicine, and education demonstration project. TITLE V—PROVISIONS RELATING TO PART C (MEDICARE+CHOICE PROGRAM) AND OTHER MEDICARE MANAGED CARE PROVISIONS Subtitle A—Provisions To Accommodate and Protect Medicare Beneficiaries Sec. 501. Changes in Medicare+Choice enrollment rules. Sec. 502. Change in effective date of elections and changes of elections of Medicare+Choice plans. Sec. 503. 2 -year extension of medicare cost contracts. Subtitle B—Provisions To Facilitate Implementation of the Medicare+Choice Program Sec. 511. Phase-in of new risk adjustment methodology; studies and reports on risk adjustment. Sec. 512. Encouraging offering of Medicare+Choice plans in areas without plans. Sec. 513. Modification of 5-year re-entry rule for contract terminations. Sec. 514. Continued computation and publication of medicare original fee-for-service expenditiu*es on a county-specific basis. Sec. 515. Flexibility to tailor benefits under Medicare+Choice plans. Sec. 516. Delay in deadline for submission of adjusted community rates. Sec. 517. Reduction in adjustment in national per capita Medicare+Choice growth percentage for 2002. Sec. 518. Deeming of Medicare+Choice organization to meet requirements. Sec. 519. Timing of Medicare+Choice health information fairs. Sec. 520. Quality assurance requirements for preferred provider organization plans. Sec. 521. Clarification of nonapplicability of certain provisions of discharge planning process to Medicare+Choice plans. Sec. 522. User fee for Medicare+Choice organizations based on number of enrolled beneficiaries. Sec. 523. Clarification regarding the ability of a religious fraternal benefit society to operate any Medicare+Choice plan. Sec. 524. Rules regarding physician referrals for Medicare+Choice program. Subtitle C—Demonstration Projects and Special Medicare Populations Sec. 531. Extension of social health maintenance organization demonstration (SHMO) project authority. Sec. 532. Extension of medicare community nursing organization demonstration project. Sec. 533. Medicare+Choice competitive bidding demonstration project. Sec. 534. Extension of medicare municipal health services demonstration projects. Sec. 535. Medicare coordinated care demonstration project. Sec. 536. Medigap protections for PACE program enrollees. Subtitle D—Medicare+Choice Nursing and Allied Health Professional Education Payments Sec. 541. Medicare+Choice nursing and allied health professional education pay- ments. Subtitle E—Studies and Reports Sec. 551. Report on accounting for VA and DOD expenditures for medicare beneficiaries.
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