Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Government Operations, Labor.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H2F3F9ED3EB3D411ABB5911C31AD9F2D0: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act.
- Section H32C4BBEBDBBF40928C15496A8AAFF3EE: 2. Ensuring the continued designation of certain critical access hospitals under the Medicare program Section 1820(c)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C....
- Section HFFE93274F8CE41938217766DE1030FDE: 3. Discretionary authority for stabilization parity Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may designate a hospital as a Critical Access in...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Government Operations, Labor
Primary Purpose
This bill, Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Mr. Alford (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Ms. Tokuda, …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → The Secretary identified in the operative section
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