Medicare and Medicaid Amendments of 1980

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends part B (Professional Standards Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to permit an organization qualified for conditional designation as a Professional Standards Review Organization to include health care practitioners, other than physicians and osteopaths, who hold independent hospital admitting privileges, if invited to become members by the organization. Includes as members of the advisory group for each statewide Professional Standards Review Council at least one registered professional nurse and doctor of dental surgery. Includes one registered professional nurse, one doctor of dental surgery, and one health practioner other than a physician in the National Professional Standards Review Council. Establishes an advisory committee to the National Professional Standards Review Council to be made up of representatives of health care practitioners other than physicians. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize hospitals which have less than a 60 percent occupancy rate and which have been granted a certificate of need for the provision of long-term care services to enter agreements under which their inpatient hospital facilities may be use…