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Introduced Session

Rural Hospital Access Act of 2015 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make permanent the Medicare-dependent, small rural subsection (d) hospital program and increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program. (Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)

Committee Categories

Chuck Grassley (R)*,  Tammy Baldwin (D),  Shelley Moore Capito (R),  Dick Durbin (D),  Mark Kirk (R),  Patrick Leahy (D),  Claire McCaskill (D),  Chris Murphy (D),  Chuck Schumer (D),  Jeanne Shaheen (D),  Debbie Stabenow (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (on 02/02/2015)

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