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LTAC Hospital Legislation Introduced in U.S. House

Published in MD Week, May 22nd, 2009

Last week, U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), U.S. Rep. John Larson (D-CT) and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) introduced the Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2009 (H.R. 2124).

H.R. 2124 protects patient access to care in Long-Term, Acute-Care (LTAC) hospitals while federal regulators and the private sector work towards development of additional facility and patient criteria and while Congress undertakes comprehensive healthcare reform.

H.R. 2124 provides for a two-year extension of certain LTAC hospital provisions found in the “Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007” (MMSEA), Public Law...

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