To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend for 2 additional years automatic reductions in payments to hospitals for capital-related costs of inpatient hospital services, to provide further reductions in such payments for low-occupancy hospitals, and to exempt hospitals treating a heavily disproportionate share of indigent patients from such reductions in such payments.
Medicare Hospital Capital Reimbursement Reform Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend current reductions in Medicare payments for the capital-related costs of inpatient hospital services through FY 1992. Increases such reductions for low-occupancy hospitals. Exempts hospitals which treat a disproportionate share of indigent patients from such reductions.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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