Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Sep 9, 2025
What it does
The Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act of 2025 would amend the Medicaid program’s disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment rules to expand eligibility for payments to include services covered by Medicare (Title XVIII) or applicable private plans, and to allow hospitals to receive DSH adjustments for costs incurred treating Medicaid-eligible individuals when their care is also covered by other payers, provided the hospital’s costs exceed those payments. The bill affects safety-net hospitals that serve low-income and uninsured patients by modifying how DSH payments are calculated and allowing states to use unspent prior-year DSH funds to increase payments under certain conditions, without…
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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.