Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Improvement Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 8
- Latest action
- Sep 3, 2026
What it does
The Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Improvement Act amends the Social Security Act to improve eligibility, payment, and operational flexibility for rural emergency hospitals. It expands eligibility by allowing facilities that operated similarly to rural emergency hospitals at any point since January 1, 2015, to qualify for designation, adds waivers for certain requirements, and permits inclusion of specialized units such as psychiatric, rehabilitation, and obstetric services. The bill also increases Medicare payments for diagnostic laboratory tests by 5%, allows swing bed agreements for extended care services, restores necessary provider status for facilities reverting to critical…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.