Rural Hospital Flexibility Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3250 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3250 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the Rural Flex program, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 20, 2025 Ms. Hassan (for herself, Mr. Barrasso, Ms. Cortez Masto, and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the Rural Flex program, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Hospital Flexibility Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. MEDICARE RURAL HOSPITAL FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM GRANTS. Section 1820 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i-4) is amended-- (1) in subsection (g)-- (A) in paragraph (1)-- (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end; (ii) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as follows: ``(D) providing support for critical access hospitals, rural health clinics, and rural emergency hospitals (as defined in section 1861(kkk)(2)) for quality improvement, quality reporting, performance improvements, benchmarking, addressing population health, transforming services, and providing linkages and services for behavioral health and substance use disorders responding to public health emergencies;''; and (iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs: ``(E) providing support for critical access hospitals to convert to rural emergency hospitals to stabilize hospital emergency services in their communities; and ``(F) conducting outreach regarding the availability of payments for direct graduate medical education costs