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 PUBLIC LAW 96-499—DEC. 5, 1980 Sec. Sec, Sec, Sec. Sec.

949. 950. 951. 952. 953.

Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec.

954. 955. 956. 957. 958. 959.

94 STAT. 2611

Flexibility in application of standards to rural hospitals. Hospital transfer requirement for skilled nursing facility coverage. Certification and utilization review by podiatrists. Access to books and records of subcontractors. Medicare liability secondary where payment can be made under liability or no fault insurance. Payment for physicians' services where beneficiary has died. Provider reimbursement review board. Payment where beneficiary not at fault. Technical renal disease amendments. Studies and demonstration projects. Temporary delay in periodic interim payments. PART C—PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICAID

Sec. 961. Disputed medicaid claims. Sec. 962. Reimbursement rates under medicaid for skilled nursing and intermediate care facility services. Sec. 963. Extension of increased funding for State medicaid fraud control units. Sec. 964. Change in calendar quarter for which satisfactory utilization review must be shown to receive waiver of medicaid reduction. Sec. 965. Reimbursement under medicaid for services furnished by nurse-midwives. Sec. 966. Demonstration projects relating to the training of AFDC recipients as home health aides. PART A—PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

Subpart I—Provider Reimbursement Changes NONPROFIT HOSPITAL PHILANTHROPY

SEC. 901. (a) Part A of title XI of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: NONPROFIT HOSPITAL PHILANTHROPY

"SEC. 1134. For purposes of determining, under titles V, XVIII, and XIX of this Act, the reasonable costs of services provided by nonprofit hospitals, the following items shall not be deducted from the operating costs of such hospitals: "(1) A grant, gift, or endowment, or income therefrom, which is to or for such a hospital and which has not been designated by the donor for paying any specific operating costs. "(2) A grant or similar payment which is to such a hospital, which was made by a governmental entity, and which is not available under the terms of the grant or payment for use as operating funds. "(3) Those types of donor designated grants and gifts (including grants and similar payments which are made by a governmental entity), and income therefrom, which the Secretary determines, in the best interests of needed health care, should be encouraged. "(4) The proceeds from the scale or mortgage of any real estate or other capital asset of such a hospital, which real estate or asset the hospital acquired through gift or grant, if such proceeds are not available for use as operating funds under the terms of the gift or grant. Paragraph (4) shall not apply to the recovery of the appropriate share of depreciation when gains or losses are realized from the disposal of depreciable assets.", (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to grants, gifts, and endowments, and income therefrom, made or established after the date of the enactment of this Act.

42 USC 1320b-4. 42 USC 701, 1395, 1396.

42 USC 1320bnote.

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