HR 1761
103th Congress
House
Health
Hospitals
Medicare
Prospective payment systems (Medical care)
Rural hospitals
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend special treatment rules under the medicare program for regional referral centers and to permit a hospital that fails to qualify as a regional referral center under the program as a result of a change in geographic classification to decline such change and qualify as such a center.
Introduced: April 21, 1993
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 22, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 21, 1993
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Apr 21, 1993
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to extend special treatment rules under the Medicare program for regional referral centers.
Permits any hospital that fails to qualify as a rural referral center under Medicare as a result of the hospital's urban reclassification to decline such reclassification and have the rural classification restored.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1