CATCH IT Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The CATCH IT Act amends the rural community facilities authority in the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. When rural health facility development includes the purchase or upgrade of preventive health care equipment, the bill increases the federal share by 25 percentage points. Covered equipment is specific: advanced breast imaging equipment for digital breast tomosynthesis or 3D mammography, mobile cancer screening units, laboratory equipment for multi-cancer early detection or diagnostic cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening equipment, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment. The bill therefore directs additional federal support toward rural health facilities that add cancer screening and diagnostic capacity.
Who Benefits and How
Rural health facilities benefit because eligible equipment projects receive a higher federal cost share and need less local match. Rural patients needing cancer screening benefit if clinics and hospitals can afford 3D mammography, mobile screening units, colorectal screening tools, CT scanners, ultrasound, or multi-cancer detection lab equipment. Medical imaging and screening equipment vendors benefit from stronger rural facility demand for covered preventive health equipment. Local rural facility sponsors benefit because the 25 percentage point federal-share increase can make equipment upgrades financially feasible.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA Rural Development grant and loan staff must determine when a project includes covered preventive health care equipment and apply the higher federal share. Rural facility applicants must document eligible equipment purchases or upgrades to receive the increased cost share. Federal taxpayers bear the added cost of a larger federal share for qualifying rural health facility projects.
Key Provisions
- Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act community facilities authority.
- Adds a 25 percentage point federal-share increase when rural health facility development includes preventive health care equipment.
- Defines covered equipment to include 3D mammography, mobile cancer screening units, multi-cancer detection lab equipment, colorectal screening equipment, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment.
- Targets federal support toward rural cancer screening and diagnostic capacity.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Increases the federal cost share by 25 percentage points for rural development facility projects that buy or upgrade specified preventive health care equipment, including 3D mammography, mobile cancer screening units, multi-cancer detection lab equipment, colorectal screening equipment, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment.
Key Policy Areas
Rural Health, Cancer Screening, USDA Rural Development
Primary Purpose
Increases the federal cost share by 25 percentage points for rural development facility projects that buy or upgrade specified preventive health care equipment, including 3D mammography, mobile cancer screening units, multi-cancer detection lab equipment, colorectal screening equipment, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Rural health facilities
- Rural patients needing cancer screening
- Medical imaging equipment vendors
- Local rural facility sponsors
Identified Costs
- USDA Rural Development grant staff
- Rural facility applicants
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and …
Ms. Scholten (for herself and Mrs. Hinson) introduced the following …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Local rural facility sponsors, Medical imaging equipment vendors, Rural health facilities
Rural patients needing cancer screening
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Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Specified cancer screening and diagnostic equipment including 3D mammography, mobile screening units, multi-cancer detection lab equipment, colorectal screening equipment, CT scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment.
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