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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.
Summary
The Rural Health Sustainability Act of 2025 amends Medicare rules to modify the criteria for designating rural emergency hospitals. The bill changes the reference date used to determine rural status from the recent enactment date to January 1, 2014, giving hospitals a longer historical baseline for qualification. The law adds a new pathway for rural emergency hospital designation, allowing hospitals that were previously designated as rural by the HHS Office of Rural Health Policy to qualify as rural emergency hospitals.
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- May 19, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
- May 19, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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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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