S 1768
100th Congress
Senate
Social Welfare
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Health
Health facilities
Hospitals
Medicare
Rural affairs legislation
Rural public health
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals receive for a three-year period at least their reasonable costs for inpatient hospital services furnished under the medicare program.
Introduced: October 7, 1987
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 7, 1987
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 7, 1987
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to ensure that rural hospitals which have no more than 50 beds and provide at least 70 percent of their inpatient hospital services to Medicare patients receive, for a three-year period, Medicare coverage of at least the reasonable costs of providing such services.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1