H.R. 3626 would provide for continued treatment for the reopening of certain facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log inDeclares that certain closed critical access hospitals and adjoining skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that seek to editreopen on or after the wikienactment of this Act shall be deemed to continue to be designated as a critical access hospital, and both the hospital and the SNF shall be deemed to continue to meet the firstapplicable life safety code standards, for purposes of titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.

Confines the application of this Act to provide a detailed summary ofhospital and an adjoining SNF that operated under common management before 1983 and closed during 2005, if before such closure the bill!)hospital was designated as a critical access hospital and the hospital and SNF both met the National Fire Protection Agency Life Health Safety Code as a facility existing as of March 16, 1982.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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Latest Major Action: 9/20/2007: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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