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Based on official legislative actions published by Congress.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Would allow certain physician financial interests in distant rural hospitals and let physician-owned hospitals expand facilities.
Allows physician or family interests in hospitals over 35 miles away
Distance reduced to 15 miles in some mountainous or secondary-road areas
Removes limit on expanding physician-owned hospital operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds
Source material does not state the bill's legislative status
These changes would likely increase where physicians can invest and allow physician-owned hospitals to grow past previous limits, potentially affecting service availability in rural areas; the source does not state other effects or costs.
Physicians, immediate family members, physician-owned hospitals, and qualifying rural hospitals.
The official source describes the bill's provisions but does not say where it is in Congress or whether votes occurred.
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