S 332
114th Congress
Senate
Health
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2015
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 2, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 2, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2015
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make permanent the Medicare-dependent, small rural subsection (d) hospital program and increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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