Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017”.
Restoring Rural Residencies Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count resident time spent in a critical access hospital as resident time spent in a nonprovider setting for purposes of making Medicare direct and indirect graduate medical education payments.
Sec. 2 Counting resident time spent in a critical access hospital as resident time spent in a nonprovider setting for purposes of making Medicare direct and indirect graduate medical education payments
in subparagraph (E), by striking “subparagraphs (J) and (K)” and inserting “subparagraphs (J), (K), and (L)”; and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
“(L) Treatment of critical access hospitals—Effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2018, such rules shall provide that a critical access hospital (as defined in section 1861(mm)(1)) is deemed to be a nonprovider setting for purposes of determining the hospitals's number of full-time equivalent residents under this subsection.”
IME— Section 1886(d)(5)(B)(iv)(II) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(B)(iv)(II)) is amended by adding at the end the following sentence: “Effective for discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2018, for purposes of this subclause, a critical access hospital (as defined in section 1861(mm)(1)) is deemed to be a nonprovider setting.”.