Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Jan 28, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedJan 28, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 84 words.
Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025 This bill eliminates certain criteria that hospitals must meet in order to qualify as critical access hospitals that receive special payment under Medicare. Specifically, the bill eliminates the requirement that a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area.
Context
- Committees
- House Ways and Means Committee
- Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 103 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 120 words
- Subjects
- Health care coverage and accessHealth facilities and institutionsHealth programs administration and fundingHospital careMedicareState and local government operations +1 more
- Latest action
- Jan 28, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]