HR1775Referred to Committee
Second Chances for Rural Hospitals Act
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-03-03
Introduced
9
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Jodey C. Arrington
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 96.4% (535 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/A000375
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (9)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
- August Pfluger (R-TX-11)Original· 2025-03-03
- Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2)Original· 2025-03-03
- Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2)· 2025-03-06
- Adrian Smith (R-NE-3)· 2025-03-14
- Ron Estes (R-KS-4)· 2025-03-14
- Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1)· 2025-05-06
- Pete Sessions (R-TX-17)· 2025-07-10
- Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1)· 2025-12-16
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1)· 2026-03-16
Latest Action
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-03-03
Source: Congress.gov
Plain-English Summary
Second Chances for Rural Hospitals Act This bill allows additional hospitals to qualify as rural emergency hospitals (REHs) under Medicare. 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. These hospitals must have been open as of December 27, 2020, in order to qualify for the new REH designation. The bill allows hospitals that were open between January 1, 2014, and December 26, 2020, to also qualify for the REH designation, and it provides for a specific payment structure for these hospitals. The bill's changes take effect beginning in 2027.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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Health
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