Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +2
- Latest action
- Jun 3, 2025
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What it does
The Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act would amend Medicare and Medicaid to provide enhanced payments and financial protections for rural health care providers, including critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, and Medicare-dependent hospitals, by eliminating sequestration cuts, reversing bad debt reimbursement reductions, permanently extending payment levels for low-volume and Medicare-dependent hospitals, extending disproportionate share payments, and implementing wage index adjustments. It also aims to improve equity for rural Medicare beneficiaries by equalizing copayments for critical access hospital services and provides regulatory relief by removing certain inpatient and…
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What moved
Who is involved
- Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]Lead sponsor
- Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]Co-sponsor
- Rep. Budzinski, Nikki [D-IL-13]Co-sponsor
- Rep. Ciscomani, Juan [R-AZ-6]Co-sponsor
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]Co-sponsor
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]Co-sponsor
Sponsors
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