Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Transportation, Government Operations.
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 H4796A8DB9E1F4D12B764C9EBB1C3EBFB: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025.
- Section HFE66815548B2465D81178B605B909245: 2. Restoring State authority to waive the 35–mile rule for certain Medicare critical access hospital designations Section 1820 of the Social Security Act (42...
- Section idf3390879add04337ae61df6c476ed803: 3. MedPAC study and report on payment systems for rural hospitals The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (in this section referred to as the Commission)...
- Section idb4d7b938c5444cda85b6fde63e121e7d: 4. Sunset Not later than 9 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a mechanism and provide guidance and technical...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Transportation, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
This bill, Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025, 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 CommitteeMr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Lankford, and Ms. Smith) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: …
Introduced in Senate
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_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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