[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3091 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3091

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit certain 
  clinics to qualify as a rural emergency hospital under the Medicare 
                                program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 19, 2023

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit certain 
  clinics to qualify as a rural emergency hospital under the Medicare 
                                program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Inclusion Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING CERTAIN CLINICS TO QUALIFY AS A MEDICARE RURAL 
              EMERGENCY HOSPITAL.

    (a) In General.--Section 1861(kkk) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395x(kkk)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(C) was a Federally qualified health center (as 
                defined in subsection (aa)(4)) that formerly 
                participated in the frontier extended stay clinic 
                demonstration under section 434 of the Medicare 
                Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act 
                of 2003.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (4)(B)(i), by inserting ``or, in the 
        case of a facility described in paragraph (3)(C), as a 
        Federally qualified health center,'' after ``1886(d)(1)(B)),''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
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