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Rural Health Sustainability Act of 2025

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the criteria for designation of rural emergency hospitals.

Introduced May 19, 2025

Latest action (May 19, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Referred to
Finance Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare

Summary
  • Amends the criteria for Medicare designation of rural emergency hospitals.
  • Changes the reference date for rural emergency hospital designation from the date of enactment to January 1, 2014.
  • Adds a new criterion for rural emergency hospital designation: designation as rural by the Office of Rural Health Policy of the Health Resources and Services Administration.

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Actions (2)
  1. May 19, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
  2. May 19, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 19, 2025

Mrs. Hyde-Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

A BILL

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the criteria for designation of rural emergency hospitals.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Rural Health Sustainability Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION OF RURAL EMERGENCY HOSPITALS.

Section 1861(kkk)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(kkk)(3)) is amended—

(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “as of the date of the enactment of this subsection” and inserting “as of January 1, 2014”;

(2) in subparagraph (A), by striking “or” at the end;

(3) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and

(4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(C) was designated as rural by the Office of Rural Health Policy of the Health Resources and Services Administration.”. <all>

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