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<title>Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017</title>
<summary summary-id="id115s253v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2018-01-19">
<action-date>2017-02-01</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017</strong></p> <p>This bill repeals existing caps on Medicare payment&nbsp;for certain outpatient physical-therapy services and speech-language pathology services. Under current law, annual payment for such services is capped at $1,980 in 2017, with specified percentage increases to that limit in subsequent years.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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