S 872
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 6, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 6, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017
This bill permanently extends the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program (which provides increased payments to certain smaller, rural hospitals that serve a proportionally high number of Medicare patients) and the program for increased payments under Medicare for low-volume hospitals.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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