119th Congress
H.R. 1775
Second Chances for Rural Hospitals Act
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Jodey C. Arrington(R-TX)
- Introduced
- Mar 3, 2025
- Policy area
- Health
- Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce; House Committee on Ways and Means
- Official text
- Introduced in House · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (9)
Original cosponsors (2)
- August Pfluger (R-TX)
- Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI)
Added later (7)
- Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) · Mar 6, 2025
- Adrian Smith (R-NE) · Mar 14, 2025
- Ron Estes (R-KS) · Mar 14, 2025
- Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM) · May 6, 2025
- Pete Sessions (R-TX) · Jul 10, 2025
- Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) · Dec 16, 2025
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV) · Mar 16, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version
Second Chances for Rural Hospitals Act
This bill allows additional hospitals to qualify as rural emergency hospitals (REHs) under Medicare.
In 2020, Congress established REHs as a new Medicare provider designation for hospitals in rural areas providing emergency department services, observation care, and other outpatient medical and health services for which the annual per patient average length of stay does not exceed 24 hours. These hospitals must have been open as of December 27, 2020, in order to qualify for the new REH designation.
The bill allows hospitals that were open between January 1, 2014, and December 26, 2020, to also qualify for the REH designation, and it provides for a specific payment structure for these hospitals. The bill's changes take effect beginning in 2027.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Mar 3, 2025 · House
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. - Mar 3, 2025
Introduced in House