To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude certain beds from counting as acute care inpatient beds for critical access hospitals under the Medicare program.

This bill would change the rules in the Medicare program about how certain beds are counted at critical access hospitals, which are typically small hospitals in rural areas. Specifically, it would make it so that some beds would no longer be counted as acute care inpatient beds at these hospitals. No official summary is available for this bill.

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