Background: Payment Policy Changes
for Small Rural Hospitals
- The BBA legislation also created a new hospital category-Critical Access Hospital-which can receive cost-based inpatient and outpatient payments from Medicare.
- The "distance requirements" for qualifying: hospitals had to be at least 15 miles by secondary road and 35 miles by primary road from the next nearest hospital, or be declared a "necessary provider" by the State.
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