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Title III — Expiring Health Provisions

115th Congress · Approved Sep 29, 2017 · 131 Stat. 1168

TITLE III Expiring Health Provisions

SEC. 301. Extension of Certain Public Health Programs.

(a)
Extension of Program of Payments to Teaching Health Centers That Operate Graduate Medical Education Programs.— Section 340H(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256h(g)) is amended—
(1)
by striking “ and $60,000,000” and inserting “ , $60,000,000”; and
(2)
by inserting “ , and $15,000,000 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018” before the period at the end.
(b)
Extension of Special Diabetes Program for Indians.— Section 330C(c)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c–3(c)(2)) is amended—
(1)
in subparagraph (B), by striking “ and” at the end;
(2)
in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting “ ; and”; and
(3)
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(D) $37,500,000 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018.”

(c)
Technical Corrections.— Part D of the Public Health Service Act is amended by redesignating—
(1)
the second subpart XI (42 U.S.C. 256i; relating to a community-based collaborative care network program) as subpart XII; and
(2)
the second section 340H (42 U.S.C. 256i) as section 340I.

SEC. 302. Extension of Medicare Patient Ivig Access Demonstration Project.

Section 101(b) of the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 1395l note) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (1), by inserting after “ for a period of 3 years” the following:

“(A) if the date of enactment of the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017 is on or before September 30, 2017, for the period beginning on October 1, 2017, and ending on December 31, 2020; and

“(B) if the date of enactment of such Act is after September 30, 2017, for the period beginning on the date of enactment of such Act and ending on December 31, 2020”

; and

(2)
in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following new sentences: “ Subject to the preceding sentence, a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in the demonstration project on September 30, 2017, shall be automatically enrolled during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017 and ending on December 31, 2020, without submission of another application.”.

SEC. 303. Funds from the Medicare Improvement Fund.

Section 1898(b)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395iii(b)(1)) is amended by striking “ during and after fiscal year 2021, $270,000,000” and inserting “ during and after fiscal year 2021, $220,000,000”.