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H.R. 771 119th Congress House

Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit States to designate without any mileage limitations facilities that are located in rural areas as critical access hospitals.

Introduced: January 28, 2025 See on congress.gov
Health Health care coverage and accessHealth facilities and institutionsHealth programs administration and fundingHospital care
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Jan 28, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 28, 2025
Introduced in House
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025

This bill eliminates certain criteria that hospitals must meet in order to qualify as critical access hospitals that receive special payment under Medicare.

Specifically, the bill eliminates the requirement that a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (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.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Lobbying activity 9

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
  • CAPITOL ASSOCIATES, INC.
    for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL HEALTH CLINICS · Michigan · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)

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 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 1 Republican 3
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Tokuda, Jill N.
Hawaii · Jun 6, 2025
 R
Jackson, Ronny
Texas · Jan 28, 2025
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Miller, Mary E.
Illinois · Jan 28, 2025
 R
Thompson, Glenn
Pennsylvania · Jan 28, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 771: Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-771/
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"H.R. 771: Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-771/.
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H.R. 771, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-771/.
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