Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

This bill would temporarily let more hospitals qualify as "critical access hospitals" under Medicare for one year. Right now, hospitals can only get this special status if they are far enough away from other hospitals or were approved before 2006, and they must have 25 or fewer beds. The bill would also allow hospitals that are currently part of a rural hospital demonstration program to qualify as critical access hospitals. These demonstration program hospitals are small rural hospitals that are too big to normally qualify for the special status.

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