[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3626 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3626

    To provide for continued treatment for the reopening of certain 
          facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2007

 Mr. Shimkus introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for continued treatment for the reopening of certain 
          facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONTINUATION OF TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN REOPENING FACILITIES.

    In the case of a hospital and an adjoining skilled nursing facility 
that were in operation under common management before 1983 and closed 
during 2005, if--
            (1) before such closure--
                    (A) the hospital was designated as a critical 
                access hospital under section 1820 of the Social 
                Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i-4); and
                    (B) the hospital and nursing facility both met the 
                National Fire Protection Agency Life Health Safety Code 
                as a facility existing as of March 16, 1982; and
            (2) the hospital and nursing facility seek to reopen on or 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act;
the hospital shall be deemed to continue to be designated as such a 
critical access hospital under such section and the hospital and 
nursing facility shall be deemed to continue to meet the applicable 
life safety code standards for purposes of titles XVIII and XIX of such 
Act.
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