A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make certain modifications in the medicare program with respect to payments made under such program to rural referral centers and high medicare volume hospitals located in rural areas, to improve the delivery of health services to individuals residing in such areas, and for other purposes.
Rural Hospital Improvements Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide an additional payment to each Medicare-dependent, small, rural hospital for discharges occurring from FY 1989 through 1994 equal to the amount by which such hospitals' reasonable costs exceed Medicare payments for such discharges.
Maintains the regional referral center classification and payment rate of each hospital so classified as of September 30, 1989, until the Medicare urban/rural hospital reimbursement differential is eliminated.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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