S 1585
111th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicare
Nursing
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia
A bill to permit pass-through payment for reasonable costs of certified registered nurse anesthetist services in critical access hospitals notwithstanding the reclassification of such hospitals as urban hospitals, including hospitals located in "Lugar counties", and for on-call and standby costs for such services.
Introduced: August 5, 2009
Introduced by:
Durbin, Richard J.
Democratic
· Illinois
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 5, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8871)
Aug 5, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8871)
Aug 5, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, as amended by the Family Support Act of 1988 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, to treat a critical access hospital as rural, notwithstanding the reclassification of its location county as an urban county ("Lugar county") under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, in order to permit pass-through payment for the reasonable costs of certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) services.
Counts on-call and standby costs for such services as reasonable CRNA costs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8871)
Committees of jurisdiction
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