Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act

Key Provisions

• Ends automatic government spending cuts for Medicare payments to rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, and Medicare-dependent hospitals.
• Increases Medicare payments to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals for unpaid bills.
• Extends permanently higher Medicare payment levels for low-volume hospitals and Medicare-dependent hospitals.
• Adjusts Medicare payments to hospitals based on local wages, with a minimum payment level for certain hospitals, while keeping overall payments balanced.
• Extends permanently increased Medicare payments for ground ambulance services in rural areas.
• Extends permanently Medicare telehealth services for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.