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US Congress HR5390

A bill to provide that certain rural hospitals shall be exempt for a period of 18 months from the requirements and provisions of title XI of the Social Security Act relating to professional standards review organizations, and from the 1972 amendments to titles XVIII, XIX, and V of such act (and the recently approved regulations relating thereto) on utilization review and utilization control under the medicare, medicaid, and maternal and child health programs; and to provide for a 6-month study of alternative methods of utilization review and utilization control for such hospitals.