To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that medicare-dependent, small, rural hospitals receive at least their reasonable costs for inpatient hospital services furnished under the medicare program, and for other purposes.

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Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay additional amounts to Medicare-dependent, small, rural hospitals to ensure that their reasonable operating costs for inpatient hospital services are covered. Makes the classification of a rural hospital as a rural referral center permanent. Treats any hospital which is the sole source of inpatient hospital services in a county or parish having no more than 10,000 inhabitants as a sole community hospital.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 February 1989

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