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Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003
Introduced: February 13, 2003
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Became law
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
Plain-English summary
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.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
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