Rural Hospital Emergency Room Guarantee Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Jun 24, 2026
What it does
The bill establishes a Rural Hospital Emergency Room Guarantee Fund to provide guaranteed funding to keep emergency rooms open at rural hospitals. It creates a 10-year program administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services through HRSA, making annual payments to eligible rural hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments, adjusted for inflation and supplemented by additional payments based on financial need, patient injury risk, and local economic conditions. Funds may only be used for normal operating expenses of the emergency department and cannot be used for executive pay, unrelated projects, or transferred to other facilities, with compliance monitored through audits and…
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