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H.R. 1191 119th Congress House

Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive certain distance requirements for certain hospitals electing to be designated as critical access hospitals.

Introduced: February 11, 2025 Introduced by: Mike Flood Republican · Nebraska See on congress.gov
Health Health care coverage and accessHospital careMedicareRural conditions and development
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 11, 2025
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May 7, 2015 Senate · vote #174 On Passage of the Bill H.R. 1191 Passed 98–1 See who voted →
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

This bill temporarily allows additional hospitals to qualify as critical access hospitals (CAHs) that receive special payment under Medicare.

Currently, in order to qualify as a CAH under Medicare, a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (or 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. Hospitals also must meet certain size and service requirements, including having no more than 25 acute care inpatient beds.

The bill allows, for one year, hospitals that are participating in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program to also qualify as CAHs. (The program tests the feasibility of cost-based reimbursement for small rural hospitals that are too large to qualify as CAHs.)

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  • S 521 Identical bill Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025
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Smith, Adrian
Nebraska · Feb 11, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1191: Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1191/
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"H.R. 1191: Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1191/.
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H.R. 1191, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1191/.
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