I'm Just a Bill: Rural Hospital Stabilization Act
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Hospital Stabilization A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Rural hospital stabilization legislation in the 119th Congress addressing the documented closure rate of rural hospitals (~150+ closed since 2010, with hundreds more financially at-risk). What does it actually do? Enhanced Medicare reimbursement for designated rural hospitals Critical Access Hospital program modernization Rural Emergency Hospital designation expansion Telehealth permanence for rural-hospital service-line continuity Workforce provisions composing with rural mental health legislation How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords + #7 MSA. Rural members face the documented care-desert created by hospital closures. The cooperative composes with whatever federal floor exists. ...