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Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2007

Introduced: May 3, 2007 See on congress.gov
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May 3, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 3, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that clinical diagnostic laboratory services furnished by a critical access hospital shall be treated as being furnished as part of outpatient critical access services without regard to whether: (1) the individual for whom the services are furnished is physically present in the critical access hospital at the time the specimen is collected; (2) such individual is registered as an outpatient on the records of, and receives such services directly from, the critical access hospital; or (3) payment is available for such services under the fee schedule established for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.

What's happening now May 3, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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