Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Summary
The Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act amends the Social Security Act so that a hospital that would lose its Critical Access status can be treated as if it still meets the criteria for up to three years, if losing the status would hurt local health care access. It also gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority to grant a special “Critical Access in Character” designation with Medicare payment parity for hospitals facing closure risk. The goal is to preserve essential services in rural, underserved, tribal and frontier communities.
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