Medicare-Medicaid Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Medicare-Medicaid Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments of 1979 - Authorizes rural hospitals of fewer 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 and Medicaid programs (titles XVIII and XIX 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, payment to be made for skilled nursing services and intermediate care services furnished by a hospital. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into such agreements on a demonstration basis with hospitals having between 50 and 100 beds if such hospitals meet the other requirements of this Act. Declares that State plans for the provision of services under titles V (Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act must require audits of the records of any entity providing services under such titles. Amends title XI (General Provisions and P…