(a) shall apply beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. 7. Preventing Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Cuts for Hospitals that Purchase Drugs under 340B Program (a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not take any action to implement, administer, or enforce the provision of the final regulation titled the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs published on November 13, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 52356 et seq.), that changes the payment amount under the Prospective Payment System for Hospital Outpatient Department Services under section 1833(t) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395l(t) ) for separately payable, nonpass-through drugs and biologicals purchased under the 340B drug pricing program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 256b ). The payment amount under such payment system under such section 1833(t) for such a drug or biological provided on or after January 1, 2018, shall be determined (or in the case of claims already processed, redetermined) through the same methodology as if such final regulation did not apply. (b) OPPS budget neutrality adjustment The first sentence of section 1833(t)(9)(B) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395l(t)(9)(B) ) is amended by striking part each place such term appears and inserting subsection each such place.