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<title>Rural Hospital Fairness Act of 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-06-28</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Rural Hospital Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, to extend from January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2014, specified &quot;hold harmless&quot; payments for small rural hospitals and sole community hospitals under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services.</p>]]></summary-text>
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