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S 543 110th Congress Senate

Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007

Official title: A bill to improve Medicare beneficiary access by extending the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to improve Medicare beneficiary access by extending the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.

Introduced: February 15, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Feb 12, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 12, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1850)
Feb 12, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Amendments to this bill 1

Amendments propose changes to this bill. Members vote on amendments separately before the final bill vote. An agreed amendment becomes part of the bill; a failed amendment does not.

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SAMDT 3,832 – – Pending Dec 12, 2007
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 Latest action February 12, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007 - Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to revise the classification criterion used to determine whether a hospital or hospital unit is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Eliminates the current schedule of applicable percentages. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, instead, to require in the classification criterion a compliance rate no greater than the 60% compliance rate that became effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2005.

Requires the Secretary, for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 2007, to include patients with comorbidity in the inpatient population that counts towards such 60% compliance rate.

Requires the Secretary, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, fiscal intermediaries, Medicare administrative contractors, recovery audit contractors, and other government agents to use and apply the criteria established in HCFA Ruling 85-2, as issued on July 31, 1985, as the sole standard for determining the medical necessity of services provided by inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units to beneficiaries under the Medicare program.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 543: Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-543/
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