A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the period during which Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals receive additional payments under the Medicare program for the operating costs of inpatient hospital services, to revise the criteria for determining whether hospitals are eligible for such additional payments, and to provide additional payments under the Medicare program to other Medicare-dependent hospitals
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher: [United States Government Printing Office]
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Federal aid to rural health services; Federal aid to hospitals; Rural hospitals; Cost of operation; Finance; Law and legislation; Hospitals; Medicare
Other titles: Medicare Dependent Hospital Relief Act of 1993.; 103d Congress, 1st Session, S. 1051 in the Senate of the United States.; To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the period during which Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals receive additional payments under the Medicare program for the operating costs of inpatient hospital services, to revise the criteria for determining whether hospitals are eligible for such additional payments, and to provide additional payments under the Medicare program to other Medicare-dependent hospitals.
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Introduced May 27 (legislative day, April 19), 1993; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.