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jCCi2l-S07U-bi1c3i: ! Sf^cuilyBlvd. EB O O 110thcongress ff f-j 4>|o4ylo 2DSession J^^ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February8(legislativeday,February6),2008 Received;readtwiceandreferredtotheCommitteeonFinance AN ACT Toextendforoneyearparityintheapplicationofcertain limitstomentalhealthbenefits,andforotherpurposes. 1 BeitenactedbytheSenateandHouseofRepresenta- 2 tivesoftheUnitedStatesofAmericainCongressassembled, 2 1 SECTION 1.PARITYINAPPLICATIONOF CERTAINLIMITS 2 TOMENTALHEALTHBENEFITS. 3 (a)AlVIENDMENTTOTHEINTERNALREVENUECODE 4 OF 1986.—Section 9812(f)(3) of the Internal Revenue 5 Codeof1986isamendedbystriking"2007"andinserting 6 "2008". 7 (b) Amendment to the Employee Rethiement — 8 Income SecurityAct of 1974. Section 712(f) ofthe 9 Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 10 U.S.C. 1185a(f)) is amendedbystriking "2007" andin- 11 serting"2008". 12 (c) Amendment to the PublicHealth Service 13 Act.—Section 2705(f) ofthe Pubhc Health Service Act 14 (42 U.S.C. 300gg-5(f)) is amended by striking "2007" 15 andinserting"2008". 16 SEC. 2. inclusion of MEDICARE PROVIDERS AND SUP- 17 PLIERSINFEDERALPAYMENTLEVYANDAD- 18 MINISTRATIVEOFFSETPROGRAM. 19 (a) In General.—Section 1874ofthe Social Secu- 20 rityAct (42U.S.C. 1395kk) isamendedbyaddingatthe 21 endthefollowingnewsubsection: 22 "(d) InclusionofMedicare Providerand Sup- 23 PLiER Payments in Federal Payment Levy Pro- — 24 gram. 25 "(1) In general.—The Centers for Medicare 26 &Medicaid Services shalltake allnecessarystepsto HR4848RFS — — 3 1 participate in the Federal Payment Levy Pro-am 2 undersection 6331(h) oftheInternalRevenueCode 3 of1986 as soon as possible and shall ensure that 4 "(A) at least 50 percent of all payments 5 under parts A and B are processed through 6 suchprogrambeginningwithin 1yearafterthe 7 dateoftheenactmentofthissection; 8 "(B) at least 75 percent of all payments 9 under parts A and B are processed through 10 such program beginning within 2 years after 11 suchdate;and 12 "(C) all payments under parts A and B 13 are processed through such program beginning 14 notlaterthanSeptember30,2011. — 15 "(2)Assistance. TheFinancialManagement 16 Service and the Internal Revenue Service shall pro- 17 vide assistance to the Centers for Medicare & Med- 18 icaid Servicesto ensure that allpayments described 19 in paragraph (1) are included in the Federal Pay- 20 ment Levy Program by the deadhnes specified in 21 thatsubsection.". 22 (b)ApplicationofAdministratr^OffsetPro- 23 VISIONS TO Medicare Provider or Supplier Pay- — 24 MENTS. Section 3716oftitle31,UnitedStatesCode, is 25 amended HR4848RFS — 4 1 (1)byinserting'"theDepartmentofHealthand 2 Human Services," after "United StatesPostal Serv- 3 ice,"insubsection(c)(1)(A);and 4 (2) by adding^ at the end of subsection (c)(3) 5 thefollowingnewsubparagraph: 6 "(D) This section shall applyto pajments 7 made afterthe datewhich is 90 days afterthe 8 enactmentofthissubparagraph (orsuchearher 9 date as desi^ated by the Secretary ofHealth 10 andHuman Services) A\ath respectto claims or 11 debts, and to amounts payable, under title 12 XVnioftheSocialSecurityAct.". — 13 (c) Effective Date. The amendments made by 14 thissectionshaUtakeeffectonthedateoftheenactment 15 ofthisAct. 16 SEC.3.DEPOSITOFEXCESSSAVINGSINPAQIFUND. — 17 (a)InGeneral. Inadditiontoanyamountsother- 18 wisemadeavailabletothePhysicianAssistanceandQual- 19 ityInitiativeFundundersection 1848(1)(2) ofthe Social 20 Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-4(l)(2)), there shall be 21 madeavailabletosuchFund 22 (1) $93,000,000 for exi)enditures during or 23 after2009; 24 (2) $212,000,000 for expenditures during or 25 after2014;and HR4848RFS — 5 1!'00''2'F<-OS0G?L-Sinb1cr3ua'riytyC!vd. ) 1 (3) $44,000,000 for expenditures during or 2 after2018. — 3 (b) Obligation. The Secretary' of Health and 4 Human Services shall provide for expenditures from the 5 Fundspecifiedinsubsection (a) inamannerdesignedto 6 provide (to the maximum extent feasible) forthe obliga- 7 tionoftheentireamountspecifiedin 8 (1) subsection (a)(1) for payment with respect 9 tophysicians'servicesfurnishedduringorafterJan- 10 uaiy1,2009; 11 (2) subsection (a)(2) for pa\Tnent with respect 12 tophysicians' servicesfurnishedonorafterJanuary 13 1,2014;and 14 (3) subsection (a)(3) for payment with respect 15 tophysicians' servicesfurnishedonorafterJanuary 16 1,2018. 17 SEC.4.PROTECTIONOFSOCIALSECURITY. 18 To ensure that the assets ofthe trust funds estab- 19 hshed under section 201 ofthe Social SecurityAct (42 20 U.S.C. 401) arenotreducedasaresultoftheenactment 21 ofthis Act, the Secretary ofthe Treasury shall transfer 22 fromthe general revenues oftheFederal Governmentto 23 thosetrustfundsthefollowingamounts: 24 (1)Forfiscalyear2008,$1,000,000. HR4848RFS ensLIBRBRV . 6 3 flDTS DD0L0L45 7 (2)Forfiscalyear2009,$5,000,000. (3) Forfiscalyear2010,$1,000,000. Passed the House of Representatives Februarj^ 7, 2008. Attest: LORRAINE C.MILLER, CUrk. HR4848RFS