Savings in one period are carried into the next
What the document says“the Secretary shall specify the methodology to be used with respect to the subsequent approval period for such project for purposes of taking the difference between such expenditures into account.”
The section requires the Secretary, where spending under a project in an approval period comes in below what it would have been without the project, to set the method used in the next approval period for taking that difference into account. It also appropriates $5,000,000 for each of the named fiscal years to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
What the document actually says“the Secretary shall specify the methodology to be used with respect to the subsequent approval period for such project for purposes of taking the difference between such expenditures into account.”
The Secretary must set a method. It covers the next approval period. It takes the gap in spending into account.
The gap arises when a project spends less than planned. The saving is not simply kept. It is carried into the next round.
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