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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 21, 2015)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania:H.R. 1906.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 3; and including, but notsolely limited to Article I, Section 8, Clause 14.[Page H2355]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2015</b></p> <p> Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include recreational therapy services among the therapeutic modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation therapy program in determining whether inpatient services in an inpatient rehabilitation facility are reasonable and necessary. </p>]]></text>
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