Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3684 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3684 To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for enhanced payments to rural health care providers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 3, 2025 Mr. Graves (for himself and Ms. Budzinski) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for enhanced payments to rural health care providers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Save America's Rural Hospitals Act''. (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) More than 60,000,000 individuals in rural areas of the United States rely on rural hospitals and other providers as critical access points to health care. (2) Access to health care is essential to communities that Americans living in rural areas call home. (3) Americans living in rural areas are older, poorer, and sicker than Americans living in urban areas. (4) As of May 1, 2025, 151 rural hospitals have closed in the United States, according to the University of North Carolina's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the rate of these closures is increasing. (5) Four hundred and