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Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003

Introduced: February 13, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Feb 26, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Feb 24, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 13, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) a five-year continuation of Medicare managed care cost contracts; (2) temporary payment increases for sole community hospitals under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services; (3) the reinstatement of periodic interim payment (PIP) with respect to the critical access hospital program, among other changes with respect to such program; (4) an extension of the temporary increase for home health services furnished in a rural area; (5) an increase in payments for hospice care furnished in frontier areas; and (6) deemed eligibility based on death in fact with respect to treatment of eligibility for hospice care.
What's happening now February 26, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Case, Ed
Hawaii · Feb 13, 2003
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Clyburn, James E.
South Carolina · Feb 13, 2003
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Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Feb 13, 2003
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 830: Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-830/
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"H.R. 830: Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-830/.
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H.R. 830, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-830/.
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