HR44Referred to Committee

Rural 340B Access Act of 2025

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Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
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Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-03
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Jack Bergman
Jack Bergman
Republican · MI · Representative
Votes with party: 98.6% (592 recorded votes)

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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

2025-01-03

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Plain-English Summary

Rural 340B Access Act of 2025 This bill makes rural emergency hospitals (REHs) eligible to purchase drugs from manufacturers at discounted prices by participating in the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) 340B drug pricing program. HRSA’s 340B program requires drug manufacturers that participate in the Medicaid program to sell certain outpatient drugs at discounted prices to entities listed as eligible under current law. Additionally, in 2020, Congress established REHs as a new Medicare provider designation for hospitals in rural areas providing emergency department services, observation care, and other outpatient medical and health services for which the annual per patient average length of stay does not exceed 24 hours. The bill adds qualifying REHs to the list of entities that are eligible to participate in the 340B program.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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