Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017
This bill permanently extends the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program (which provides increased payments to certain smaller, rural hospitals that serve a proportionally high number of Medicare patients) and the program for increased payments under Medicare for low-volume hospitals.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-06 | IntroReferral | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate |
| 2017-04-06 | IntroReferral | Introduced in Senate | Library of Congress |