Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 124.djvu/149

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124 STAT. 123 PUBLIC LAW 111–148—MAR. 23, 2010 Sec. 3026. Community-Based Care Transitions Program. Sec. 3027. Extension of gainsharing demonstration. Subtitle B—Improving Medicare for Patients and Providers PART I—ENSURING BENEFICIARY ACCESS TO PHYSICIAN CARE AND OTHER SERVICES Sec. 3101. Increase in the physician payment update. Sec. 3102. Extension of the work geographic index floor and revisions to the prac- tice expense geographic adjustment under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Sec. 3103. Extension of exceptions process for Medicare therapy caps. Sec. 3104. Extension of payment for technical component of certain physician pa- thology services. Sec. 3105. Extension of ambulance add-ons. Sec. 3106. Extension of certain payment rules for long-term care hospital services and of moratorium on the establishment of certain hospitals and facili- ties. Sec. 3107. Extension of physician fee schedule mental health add-on. Sec. 3108. Permitting physician assistants to order post-Hospital extended care services. Sec. 3109. Exemption of certain pharmacies from accreditation requirements. Sec. 3110. Part B special enrollment period for disabled TRICARE beneficiaries. Sec. 3111. Payment for bone density tests. Sec. 3112. Revision to the Medicare Improvement Fund. Sec. 3113. Treatment of certain complex diagnostic laboratory tests. Sec. 3114. Improved access for certified nurse-midwife services. PART II—RURAL PROTECTIONS Sec. 3121. Extension of outpatient hold harmless provision. Sec. 3122. Extension of Medicare reasonable costs payments for certain clinical di- agnostic laboratory tests furnished to hospital patients in certain rural areas. Sec. 3123. Extension of the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program. Sec. 3124. Extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program. Sec. 3125. Temporary improvements to the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals. Sec. 3126. Improvements to the demonstration project on community health inte- gration models in certain rural counties. Sec. 3127. MedPAC study on adequacy of Medicare payments for health care pro- viders serving in rural areas. Sec. 3128. Technical correction related to critical access hospital services. Sec. 3129. Extension of and revisions to Medicare rural hospital flexibility program. PART III—IMPROVING PAYMENT ACCURACY Sec. 3131. Payment adjustments for home health care. Sec. 3132. Hospice reform. Sec. 3133. Improvement to medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) pay- ments. Sec. 3134. Misvalued codes under the physician fee schedule. Sec. 3135. Modification of equipment utilization factor for advanced imaging serv- ices. Sec. 3136. Revision of payment for power-driven wheelchairs. Sec. 3137. Hospital wage index improvement. Sec. 3138. Treatment of certain cancer hospitals. Sec. 3139. Payment for biosimilar biological products. Sec. 3140. Medicare hospice concurrent care demonstration program. Sec. 3141. Application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor. Sec. 3142. HHS study on urban Medicare-dependent hospitals. Sec. 3143. Protecting home health benefits. Subtitle C—Provisions Relating to Part C Sec. 3201. Medicare Advantage payment. Sec. 3202. Benefit protection and simplification. Sec. 3203. Application of coding intensity adjustment during MA payment transi- tion. Sec. 3204. Simplification of annual beneficiary election periods. Sec. 3205. Extension for specialized MA plans for special needs individuals. Sec. 3206. Extension of reasonable cost contracts. Sec. 3207. Technical correction to MA private fee-for-service plans. Sec. 3208. Making senior housing facility demonstration permanent.