Enact the Healthier Rural Hospitals Act

Summary

The bill establishes a temporary Medicaid managed‑care payment program for hospitals in Ohio counties with fewer than 100,000 residents. The 20 counties with the highest combined rates of cancer deaths, poverty, chronic respiratory disease, stroke and drug‑overdose deaths will receive higher payment rates—150% of the statewide average for the ten worst counties and 125% for the next ten. The program lasts two years and bars reductions in payments to hospitals that do not join the program.

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