MEDICAID IMPROVEMENT FUND^[589]

Sec. 1941. [42 U.S.C. 1396w-1] (a) Authority or Requirements to Cover Additional Individuals.—The Secretary shall establish under this title a Medicaid Improvement Fund (in this section referred to as the “Fund”) which shall be available to the Secretary to improve the management of the Medicaid program by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including oversight of contracts and contractors and evaluation of demonstration projects. Payments made for activities under this subsection shall be in addition to payments that would otherwise be made for such activities.

(b) Funding.—

(1) In general.—There shall be available to the Fund, for expenditures from the Fund—

(A) for fiscal year 2014, $0^[590]; and

(B) for each of^[591] fiscal years 2015 through 2018, $150,000,000^[592].

(2) Funding limitation.—Amounts in the Fund shall be available in advance of appropriations but only if the total amount obligated from the Fund does not exceed the amount available to the Fund under paragraph (1). The Secretary may obligate funds from the Fund only if the Secretary determines (and the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the appropriate budget officer certify) that there are available in the Fund sufficient amounts to cover all such obligations incurred consistent with the previous sentence.

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^[589]  P.L. 111-148, §2007(a), provides that: ”RESCISSION.—Any amounts available to the Medicaid Improvement Fund established under section 1941 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396w–1) for any of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 that are available for expenditure from the Fund and that are not so obligated as of the date of the enactment of this Act are rescinded.”

^[590]  P.L. 111-127, §4, struck out “$100,000,000” and inserted “$10,000,000”, effective January 27, 2010.

P.L. 111-148, §2007(b)(1), struck out “$100,000,000” and inserted “$0”, effective March 23, 2010. Executed as if P.L. 111-148, §2007(b)(1). intended “$10,000,000”.

^[591]  P.L. 111-8, §226, inserted “each of”, effective March 11, 2009.

^[592]  P.L. 111-148, §2007(b)(2), struck out “$150,000,000” and inserted “$0”, effective March 23, 2010.