A bill to improve the provision of health services in rural areas, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to submit to the Congress a report recommending a methodology that provides for the elimination of the rural/urban Medicare reimbursement differential. Requires promulgation of regulations to implement the recommendations and actual implementation in 1992 if the Congress fails to enact, by a specified date, legislation with respect to the average standardized amounts applicable to large urban, other urban, and rural hospitals.…