US Congress Senate Bill 3103 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum:
Status: Introduced on December 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-12-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S7161)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Allows additional hospitals to qualify as critical access hospitals (CAHs) that receive special payment under Medicare. Currently, in order to qualify as a CAH under Medicare, a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (or 15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area. The bill allows a hospital to also qualify if the hospital is a small, rural hospital that (1) serves a health professional shortage area, or a high number of low-income individuals or Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries; (2) has experienced financial losses for two consecutive years; and (3) attests to having a strategic plan to address financial solvency.

Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2019

Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Mike Rounds [R-SD]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-12-18	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S7161)

HB5481 (Same As) 2019-12-18 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3103/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3103/BILLS-116s3103is.pdf