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H.R. 63, To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital (1 comment ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
H.R. 63 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.
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Corey
(logged in user) June 7, 2009, 4:06am (report abuse)Could a hospital conceivably use implanted micro chips to meet the obligation of making a child identifyable even is taken from the hospital? A little scary to think that all Federally Reimbursed hospitals will be required to provide 'evident' identification of baby's.