HR 538
119th Congress
House
Health
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 16, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 16, 2025
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025
This bill repeals the 96-hour physician-certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services under Medicare. Under current law, as a condition for Medicare payment for such services, a physician must certify that a patient may reasonably be expected to be discharged or transferred to a hospital within 96 hours after admission to the critical access hospital.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
2
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 538: Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-538/
"H.R. 538: Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-538/.
H.R. 538, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-538/.
[H.R. 538: Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-538/)