United States. Congress

“ Furnishing medical assistance with reasonable promptness.—For the purpose of a State’s obligation under section 1902 (a) (8) to furnish medical assistance with reasonable promptness, the date of the electronic transmission of low-income subsidy program data, as described in section 1144 (c) , from the Commissioner of Social Security to the State Medicaid Agency, shall constitute the date of filing of such application for benefits under the Medicare Savings Program. ”

“ Elimination of Funding Limitation.— (1) In General.— Section 1933 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396u–3) is amended— (A) in subsection (a) , by striking ``who are selected to receive such assistance under subsection (b) ́ ́; (B) by striking subsections (b) , (c) , (e) , and (g) ; (C) in subsection (d) , by striking ``furnished in a State ́ ́ and all that follows and inserting ``the Federal medical assistance percentage shall be equal to 100 percent. ́ ́ ”