A common sense budgetary safeguard for all. This also allows patients in critical access hospitals to transfer directly to HealthTacs. For many rural areas, such as those in Oklahoma, a critical access hospital is the only Medicare hospital within a clinically relevant transfer distance. and current law limits access for these patients to get admitted into an ltch, even if the care is needed. (02:34–02:44)
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Asserts that in many rural areas, critical access hospitals are the only Medicare hospitals within transfer distance.
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