Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to submit to the Congress a report recommending a methodology that provides for the elimination of the rural/urban Medicare reimbursement differential. Requires promulgation of regulations to implement the recommendations and actual implementation in 1992 if the Congress fails to enact, by a specified date, legislation with respect to the average standardized amounts applicable to large urban, other urban, and rural hospitals.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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