Rural ER Access Act has not moved since its introduction on Jan 28, 2025, with no cosponsors
IntroducedJan 28, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 56 words.
Rural ER Access Act This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to repeal regulations that require off-campus facilities to be located within 35 miles of the main hospital or critical access hospital in order to receive provider-based status under Medicare (i.e., to be considered as hospital outpatient departments for purposes of Medicare payment).
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
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 · 112 words
- Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of Health and Human ServicesHealth facilities and institutionsHospital careMedicareRural conditions and development
- Latest action
- Jan 28, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 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]