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 124 STAT. 3285 PUBLIC LAW 111–309 —DEC. 15, 2010 Public Law 111–309 111th Congress An Act To extend certain expiring provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010’’. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—EXTENSIONS Sec. 101. Physician payment update. Sec. 102. Extension of MMA section 508 reclassifications. Sec. 103. Extension of Medicare work geographic adjustment floor. Sec. 104. Extension of exceptions process for Medicare therapy caps. Sec. 105. Extension of payment for technical component of certain physician pathol- ogy services. Sec. 106. Extension of ambulance add-ons. Sec. 107. Extension of physician fee schedule mental health add-on payment. Sec. 108. Extension of outpatient hold harmless provision. Sec. 109. Extension of Medicare reasonable costs payments for certain clinical diag- nostic laboratory tests furnished to hospital patients in certain rural areas. Sec. 110. Extension of the qualifying individual (QI) program. Sec. 111. Extension of Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA). Sec. 112. Special diabetes programs. TITLE II—OTHER PROVISIONS Sec. 201. Clarification of effective date of part B special enrollment period for dis- abled TRICARE beneficiaries. Sec. 202. Repeal of delay of RUG–IV. Sec. 203. Clarification for affiliated hospitals for distribution of additional residency positions. Sec. 204. Continued inclusion of orphan drugs in definition of covered outpatient drugs with respect to children’s hospitals under the 340B drug discount program. Sec. 205. Medicaid and CHIP technical corrections. Sec. 206. Funding for claims reprocessing. Sec. 207. Revision to the Medicare Improvement Fund. Sec. 208. Limitations on aggregate amount recovered on reconciliation of the health insurance tax credit and the advance of that credit. Sec. 209. Determination of budgetary effects. TITLE I—EXTENSIONS SEC. 101. PHYSICIAN PAYMENT UPDATE. Section 1848(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w– 4(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 42 USC 1305 note. Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010. Dec. 15, 2010 [H.R. 4994]