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 124 STAT. 998 PUBLIC LAW 111–148—MAR. 23, 2010 ‘‘(B) COLLECTION OF DATA AND EVALUATION.—By not later than January 1, 2011, the Secretary shall require Federally qualified health centers to submit to the Sec- retary such information as the Secretary may require in order to develop and implement the prospective payment system under this subsection, including the reporting of services using HCPCS codes. ‘‘(2) IMPLEMENTATION.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 1833(a)(3)(A), the Secretary shall provide, for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2014, for payments of prospective payment rates for Federally qualified health center services furnished by Federally qualified health cen- ters under this title in accordance with the prospective payment system developed by the Secretary under para- graph (1). ‘‘(B) PAYMENTS.— ‘‘(i) INITIAL PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall imple- ment such prospective payment system so that the estimated aggregate amount of prospective payment rates (determined prior to the application of section 1833(a)(1)(Z)) under this title for Federally qualified health center services in the first year that such system is implemented is equal to 100 percent of the estimated amount of reasonable costs (determined without the application of a per visit payment limit or productivity screen and prior to the application of section 1866(a)(2)(A)(ii)) that would have occurred for such services under this title in such year if the system had not been implemented. ‘‘(ii) PAYMENTS IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS.—Payment rates in years after the year of implementation of such system shall be the payment rates in the previous year increased— ‘‘(I) in the first year after implementation of such system, by the percentage increase in the MEI (as defined in section 1842(i)(3)) for the year involved; and ‘‘(II) in subsequent years, by the percentage increase in a market basket of Federally qualified health center goods and services as promulgated through regulations, or if such an index is not available, by the percentage increase in the MEI (as defined in section 1842(i)(3)) for the year involved. ‘‘(C) PREPARATION FOR PPS IMPLEMENTATION.—Notwith- standing any other provision of law, the Secretary may establish and implement by program instruction or other- wise the payment codes to be used under the prospective payment system under this section.’’. (B) Section 1833(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(a)(1)), as amended by section 4104, is amended— (i) by striking ‘‘and’’ before ‘‘(Y)’’; and (ii) by inserting before the semicolon at the end the fol- lowing: ‘‘, and (Z) with respect to Federally qualified health center services for which payment is made under section 1834(o), the amounts paid shall be 80 percent of the lesser Deadline.