Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Reauthorizes rural health outreach, rural health network development, and small health care provider quality improvement grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and requires grant funds to address rural underserved populations and involve them in project planning and operations.
Who Benefits and How
Rural underserved patients benefit because grant projects must meet their health care needs and involve them in development, planning, ongoing operations, and network implementation. Rural hospitals, rural clinics, small health care providers, and rural health networks benefit from continued section 330A grant authority through 2030. Local health departments and community organizations benefit from clearer expectations that rural underserved populations participate in project design.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HRSA grant administrators must apply the new use-of-funds requirements and reauthorized grant timelines. Rural health grantees must show how funds meet rural underserved needs and involve those populations. Federal taxpayers bear grant costs if appropriations are provided. Small providers must manage federal grant reporting and community-engagement obligations.
Key Provisions
- Adds rural underserved population use-of-funds rules to rural health care services outreach grants.
- Adds rural underserved population benefit and involvement rules to rural health network development grants.
- Extends section 330A authorization from 2021-2025 to 2026-2030.
- Supports integrated health care networks for rural underserved communities.
- Creates grant-administration and reporting work for HRSA and rural grantees.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Reauthorizes rural health outreach, rural health network development, and small health care provider quality improvement grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and requires grant funds to address rural underserved populations and involve them in project planning and operations.
Key Policy Areas
Rural Health, Health Care Grants, Underserved Communities
Primary Purpose
Reauthorizes rural health outreach, rural health network development, and small health care provider quality improvement grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and requires grant funds to address rural underserved populations and involve them in project planning and operations.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Rural underserved patients
- Rural hospitals
- Rural clinics
- Small health care providers
- Rural health networks
- Local health departments
Identified Costs
- HRSA grant administrators
- Rural health grantees
- Federal taxpayers
- Small providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReported by Mr. Cassidy, without amendment
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator …
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be …
Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself, Ms. Smith, Ms. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
HRSA grant administrators, Rural health grantees, Rural health networks
Positive-direction: Rural health networks, Rural underserved patients
Negative-direction: HRSA grant administrators, Rural health grantees
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "director"
- → Director of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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