Bill Text: MA H3920 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced

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Bill Title: Discrimination by acute hospitals agains certain Medicare and beneficiaries

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-23 - Read second and ordered to a third reading [H3920 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H3920-Introduced.html

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

William Smitty Pignatelli

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act to eliminate antiquated language in health care requirements.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:	District/Address:
William Smitty Pignatelli	4th Berkshire
John W. Scibak	2nd Hampshire
Bruce E. Tarr	First Essex and Middlesex

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act to eliminate antiquated language in health care requirements.

                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1 Section 51 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is herby amended by striking out third paragraph

SECTION 2.Section 51D of said chapter 111, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding, at the end of the first paragraph, the following sentence:-

Any hospital that meets the admission and discharge regulations, including the notice for hospital discharge appeals rights, of the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for a medicare patient shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.       

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