On June 3, 2025, Representative Graves (R-MO) and Representative Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) reintroduced H.R. 3684, the Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act. This bill proposes to address key financial and administrative challenges that rural hospitals currently face. The Save...

The President's FY 2026 Budget request calls on Congress to eliminate bipartisan, fundamental, and longstanding rural health programs, such as the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility program and State Offices of Rural Health, which are essential to ensuring access to care...

On May 22nd, the House passed its reconciliation package. The legislation now heads to the Senate and will likely see changes. The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is extremely concerned by the House’s efforts to limit enrollees’ access to health care...

Site-neutral payment policies aim to equalize Medicare reimbursement for outpatient services between hospital off-campus departments and physicians’ offices. Site-neutral proposals currently circulating would pay for services provided at off-campus departments at the lower...

Enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) provide additional subsidies to people who are eligible for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Marketplace premium tax credits and are also available to qualifying individuals with an annual income equivalent to 400% of the federal poverty...