Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

This bill would temporarily let certain small rural hospitals qualify as "critical access hospitals," which is a special category that allows them to receive different payments from Medicare. Right now, hospitals have to meet specific rules to get this status, like being a certain distance from the nearest hospital or having no more than 25 beds. The bill would give hospitals that are already part of a program called the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program a chance to also qualify as critical access hospitals for one year, even if they are a bit too large to normally qualify.

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