Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit the designation of a certain critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota, by exempting it from the requirement that it be certified by the state on or after January 1, 2006, as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores to Minnesota state authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule.)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2000-2002, S2080)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2080)
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