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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…

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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: January 25, 1989 See on congress.gov
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Jan 25, 1989
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 25, 1989
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Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to ensure that rural hospitals which have no more than 100 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 January 25, 1989

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Bill text 1 version

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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Jan 25, 1989
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 10: 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.. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-10/
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"S. 10: 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.." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-10/.
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S. 10, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-10/.
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[S. 10: 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.](https://openamerica.io/bill/101-S-10/)
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