Restoring Rural Health Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Oct 23, 2025
What it does
The Restoring Rural Health Act would amend the Social Security Act to modify how certain critical access hospitals are treated under Medicare, specifically by adjusting eligibility criteria related to distance requirements. It would affect critical access hospitals that were designated as such by January 1, 2024, and later received notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services between December 1, 2024, and January 1, 2027, that they were noncompliant with federal distance requirements. The bill aims to preserve Medicare benefits for these hospitals by adding a new subclause that allows them to qualify for special treatment despite noncompliance with location-based rules during…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
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Who is involved
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.