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Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act (S. 2786) - AAFP Legislative Stance


The American Academy of Family Physicians supports, with qualifications, the Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act (S. 2786) by indicating family medicine's concern about the upper payment limit of $92 per visit and about allowing physician assistants to be considered attending physicians for hospice patients. (July Board 2008)