designation

Rather, the hospital was done in by a federal decision this year to strip the hospital’s “Critical Access” designation, which enabled it to receive increased federal reimbursement.

The designation makes group members ineligible to enter the US, freezes any assets they may have in the world's largest economy and makes it a crime to provide material support to them.

Under that law, the attorney general has 120 days to make an interim appointment - a period that began on 21 January with Siebert's designation, the judge noted.

The designation gives it another way to turn up the heat.

Bayer said Asundexian has been granted fast track designation by the U.S.