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Medicaid Payment Fairness to the Territories Act of 2013

H.R. 79 · 113th Congress · Jan 3, 2013 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the territories.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Medicaid Payment Fairness to the Territories Act of 2013”.

Sec. 2 Increase in the Federal medical assistance percentage for the territories

Section 1905(b)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)(2)) is amended by inserting after “55 percent” the following: “(or, beginning with fiscal year 2014, the highest such Federal medical assistance percentage applicable to any of the 50 States for the fiscal year involved)”.