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Helping Hospitals in Need Act
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H. R. 6605 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6605


To provide additional amounts to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 23, 2020

Mrs. Hayes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

A BILL

To provide additional amounts to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, 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.

This Act may be cited as the “Helping Hospitals in Need Act”.

SEC. 2. Additional funding for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.

(a) Additional appropriation.—There is hereby appropriated, out of any amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000,000 for an additional amount for “Department of Health and Human Services—Office of the Secretary—Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund”, to be merged with amounts made available to such account by division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136).

(b) Purposes of funds.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to obligate and expend the amount appropriated by subsection (a) in a manner that prioritizes funding for—

(1) hospitals and health care providers that the Secretary determines serve a high proportion of uninsured or low income patients, including based on—

(A) whether the hospital has received disproportionate share hospital payments under section 1886(r) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww) with respect to fiscal year 2019;

(B) whether the hospital has received disproportionate share hospital payments under section 1925 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r–6) with respect to fiscal year 2019; and

(C) any other factors specified by the Secretary, including whether the hospital is identified as a “safety-net hospital” by the National Academy of Medicine; and

(2) States, including the District of Columbia and the territories or possessions of the United States, that the Secretary, in coordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, determines to have the highest per capita hospitalization rates for confirmed cases of COVID–19.