H.R. 1868: To prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.

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H.R. 1868: To prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-12 · Health · Latest: Became Public Law No: 117-7.

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Official title

To prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.

Plain summary

This bill makes several budgetary and technical changes to provisions under Medicare and Medicaid. The bill continues to exempt Medicare from sequestration until December 31, 2021. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.) The bill also specifically applies certain modified payment limits to rural health clinics that temporarily enrolled in Medicare during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or that applied to enroll by December 31, 2020; and preserves higher Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments for public hospitals in California under forthcoming payment methodology changes.

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Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3] · 7 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: CBO’s Estimate of the Deficit Effects of H.R. 1868, an Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes (2021-03-24); CBO cost estimate: Deficit Effects of H.R. 1868, an Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes (2021-03-24); CBO cost estimate: CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 1868, an Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes (2021-04-12); CBO cost estimate: Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 1868, an Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes (2021-04-12)

Cosponsors on this site

Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), John B. Larson (D-CT), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Al Green (D-TX)

Recorded votes

• House roll call 95 (2021): On Motion to Recommit, HR1868 (2021-03-19): Failed
• House roll call 96 (2021): On Passage, HR1868 (2021-03-19): Passed
• Senate vote 141 (2021): On the Amendment, HR1868 (2021-03-25): Amendment Rejected
• Senate vote 142 (2021): On Passage of the Bill, HR1868 (2021-03-25): Bill Passed
• House roll call 98 (2021): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment, HR1868 (2021-04-13): Passed

Sources

• Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)
• Congress.gov
• Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr1868.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr1868 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117