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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1740

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1406 Session of 2003


        INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, McCALL, ALLEN AND GOODMAN, MAY 7, 2003

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MAY 7, 2003

                                     AN ACT

     1  Designating political subdivisions as rural areas for purposes
     2     of Medicare hospital service payments.

     3     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     4  hereby enacts as follows:
     5  Section 1.  Short title.
     6     This act shall be known and may be cited as the Medicare
     7  Hospital Service Payment Designation Act.
     8  Section 2.  Designation.
     9     For purposes of payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital
    10  services under section 1886 of the Social Security Act (49 Stat.
    11  620, 42 U.S.C. § 1395ww), the political subdivisions of Coaldale
    12  Borough and Butler Township in Schuylkill County are designated,
    13  pursuant to section 1886(d)(8)(E)(ii)(II) of the Social Security
    14  Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395ww(d)(8)(E)(ii)(II)), as rural areas.
    15  Section 3.  Effective date.
    16     This act shall take effect immediately.


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