Rural Hospital Flexibility Act of 2025

This bill changes a Medicare grant program that supports rural hospitals, called the Rural Flex program. It adds rural health clinics and rural emergency hospitals to the facilities the program supports. It also funds help for critical access hospitals that want to become rural emergency hospitals, and outreach to rural hospitals about funding for medical residency training. It routes small rural hospital grants through State Offices of Rural Health, defines eligible hospitals as rural hospitals with fewer than 50 beds or rural emergency hospitals, and splits these grants equally among them. It extends the program's funding authorization from fiscal year 2011 into every later year, instead of ending after 2012.

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Sponsors

• Margaret Wood Hassan Democrat sponsor
• 3 cosponsors