Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Improvement Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 8
- Latest action
- Jul 29, 2026
What it does
The Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Improvement Act would amend Medicare and Medicaid provisions to improve access and funding for rural emergency hospitals by expanding eligibility, allowing waivers for certain requirements, adding payment increases for diagnostic laboratory tests, permitting swing bed agreements, restoring necessary provider status for facilities that revert to critical access hospital designation, designating such hospitals as health professional shortage areas for National Health Service Corps eligibility, including them in small rural hospital improvement grants, and incorporating their services into Medicaid coverage. The bill affects rural emergency hospitals…
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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.