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<title>Protecting Local Access to Care for Everyone Act of 2019</title>
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<action-date>2019-05-07</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Protecting Local Access to Care for Everyone Act of 2019 or the PLACE Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) to treat certain clinical services that are furnished by an excepted off-campus outpatient department of a provider (i.e., a department that would be considered an off-campus outpatient department but for certain statutory exceptions) during a specified period as though such services were provided on-campus for purposes of Medicare payment. (In November 2018, the CMS issued regulations that applied a lower Medicare payment rate for such services.)</p>]]></summary-text>
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