A bill to improve the delivery of health care services in rural areas by creating an Assistant Secretary for Rural Health, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that medical assistance facilities be reimbursed based on reasonable cost, to establish a grant program for the use of interactive telecommunications systems, and to adjust the payments made for certain direct graduate medical education expenses
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher: [United States Government Printing Office]
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Federal aid to rural health services; Rural health services; Law and legislation; Medicare; Medical telematics; Federal aid to medical education
Other titles: Rural Health Improvement Act of 1993.; 103d Congress, 1st Session, S. 1143 in the Senate of the United States.; To improve the delivery of health care services in rural areas by creating an Assistant Secretary for Rural Health, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that medical assistance facilities be reimbursed based on reasonable cost, to establish a grant program for the use of interactive telecommunications systems, and to adjust the payments made for certain direct graduate medical education expenses.
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Introduced June 22, 1993; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.