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 96 STAT. 334

26 USC 3111. Operating costs, estimate.

42 USC 401.

42 USC 1396.

PUBLIC LAW 97-248—SEPT. 3, 1982 "(5) In the case of any hospital having any cost reporting period of other than a 12-month period, the Secretary shall determine the 12-month period which shall be used for purposes of this section. "(6)(A) The Secretary shall provide for an adjustment under this paragraph in the amount of payment otherwise provided a hospital under this subsection in the case of a hospital which, as of August 15, 1982, was subject to the taxes (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the TICA taxes') imposed by section 3111 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and which is not subject to such taxes for part or all of a cost reporting period beginning on or after October 1, 1982. "(B) In making such adjustment for a cost reporting period the Secretary shall estimate the amount of the operating costs of inpatient hospital services that would have resulted if the hospital was subject to the FICA taxes during that period. In making such estimate the Secretary shall reduce the amount of such FICA taxes that would have been paid (but not below zero) by the amount of costs which the hospital demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary were incurred in the period for pensions, health, and other fringe benefits for employees (and former employees and family members) comparable to, and in lieu of, the benefits provided under title II and this title of the Social Security Act. "(C) If a hospital's operating costs of inpatient hospital services estimated under subparagraph (B) is greater than the hospital's operating costs of inpatient hospital services determined without regard to this paragraph for a cost reporting period, then the Secretary shall reduce the amount otherwise paid the hospital (respecting operating costs of inpatient hospital services) under this subsection for the period by the amount by which— "(i) the amount that would have been paid the hospital if (I) the amount of the operating costs of inpatient hospital services estimated under subparagraph (B) were treated as the amount of the operating costs of inpatient hospital services and (II) subsection (a) did not apply to the determination, exceeds— "(ii) the amount that would otherwise have been paid the hospital if subsection (a) (and this paragraph) did not apply; except that, in making such determination for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1984, clause (ii) of paragraph (1)(B) shall continue to apply. "(c)(1) The Secretary may provide, in his discretion, that payment with respect to services provided by a hospital in a State may be made in accordance with a hospital reimbursement control system in a State, rather than in accordance with the other provisions of this title, if the chief executive officer of the State requests such treatment and if— "(A) the Secretary determines that the system, if approved under this subsection, will apply (i) to substantially all nonFederal acute care hospitals (as defined by the Secretary) in the State and (ii) to the review of at least 75 percent of all revenues or expenses in the State for inpatient hospital services and of revenues or expenses for inpatient hospital services provided under the State's plan approved under title XIX; "(B) the Secretary has been provided satisfactory assurances as to the equitable treatment under the system of all entities (including Federal and State programs) that pay hospitals for

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