Rural Hospital Access Act of 2015
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make permanent the Medicare-dependent, small rural subsection (d) hospital program and increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-02 | IntroReferral | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate |
| 2015-02-02 | IntroReferral | Introduced in Senate | Library of Congress |