A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide long-term care services in certain rural hospitals.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes rural hospitals of less than 50 beds which have been granted a certificate of need for the provision of long-term care services to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Medicare (title XVIII) and Medicaid (title XIX) programs of the Social Security Act providing that their inpatient hospital facilities may be used to furnish services which if furnished by a skilled nursing facility would constitute post hospital extended care services. Authorizes, pursuant to such agreements, payments to be made for skilled nursing services and intermediate care services furnished by a hospital.…