To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide periodic interim payments under the medicare program to hospitals with 100 beds or fewer within 10 days, rather than 14 days, of the end of each payment period.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide periodic interim payments under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to small hospitals within ten days after the end of each payment period.…