HR 3365
113th Congress
House
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Defending Rural Access to Long Term Acute Care Act of 2013
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 29, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Oct 29, 2013
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Defending Rural Access to Long Term Acute Care Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying to certain long-term care (LTC) hospitals operating in a single-hospital metropolitan statistical area (MSA) special (Medicare threshold) payment (adjustment) policies and regulations for: (1) LTC hospitals within hospitals and satellites of LTC hospitals, or (2) any such LTC hospitals and satellites that discharged patients under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act who were admitted from a hospital not located in the same building or on the same campus as the LTC hospital or satellite.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1