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Baldwin Leads Bipartisan Support For Rural Hospitals  Press
Release  Location: Washington, DC  U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin
(D-WI) has led a bipartisan group of 20 Senators in support of
rural hospitals and the value they provide to communities across
the country. In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Max Baucus and Ranking Member Orin Hatch, Senator Baldwin and 19
other Senators express their opposition to a provision in
President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget that proposes to cut
Medicare reimbursement levels for rural hospitals. The
President's budget proposes reducing Medicare reimbursement
levels for "Critical Access Hospital's" (CAH) and removes the
"critical access" designation for any hospital within 10 miles
of another hospital. Consistent with the President's budget, a
recent Department of Health and Human Services Office of
Inspector General (OIG) report proposes decertifying all CAHs
within a certain number of miles from the ne