1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020”.
Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020
A BILL
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for a waiver of payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities during the COVID-19 emergency.
2. Providing for a waiver of payment reductions under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for certain nonapproved capital expenditures undertaken by health care facilities during the COVID-19 emergency
in paragraph (1), by inserting “or (3)” after “paragraph (2)”; and
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
“(3) No payment reduction shall be made pursuant to paragraph (1) with respect to an obligation for a capital expenditure made during the emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B).”
Sense of Congress— It is the sense of Congress that any State requirement relating to the approval of capital expenditures of health care facilities located in such State (commonly referred to as “certificate of need laws”) should be waived for the duration of the emergency period defined in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b–5(g)(1)(B)).