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117th Congress · Senate

Dr. Joanne Smith Memorial Rehabilitation Innovation Centers Act of 2022

Subjects: Congressional oversight · Government information and archives · Health facilities and institutions · Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care · Medical research · Medicare · Neurological disorders · Health

In plain language

  • Senate bill in the 117th Congress.
  • Directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish and biennially update a list of all.
  • House passed it on Dec 22, 2022 (substantive).
Official summary (Congressional Research Service)

Dr. Joanne Smith Memorial Rehabilitation Innovation Centers Act of 2022 This act directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish and biennially update a list of all rehabilitation innovation centers. The act defines rehabilitation innovation centers as rehabilitation facilities that (1) hold specified federal research and training designations for traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury research, and (2) serve at least a certain number of Medicare patients. The CMS may waive such criteria as it deems appropriate.

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