To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the classification of certain hospitals as cancer hospitals for purposes of payment for inpatient and outpatient hospital services under the Medicare Program.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare payment for inpatient hospital services to any hospital recognized as a clinical cancer research center by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health as of February 18, 1998 that: (1) has never been reimbursed for inpatient hospital services pursuant to a reimbursement system under a certain Medicare demonstration project; (2) is a freestanding facility organized primarily for treatment of and research on cancer and is not a unit of another hospital; (3) as of the date of the enactment of this Act is licensed for 162 acute care beds; and (4) demonstrates for the four year period ending on June 30, 1999, that at least 50 percent of its total discharges have a principal finding of neoplastic disease.…