[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 772 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 772

    To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise 
 regulations to remove the requirement under the Medicare program that 
  an off-campus facility or organization shall be located within a 35-
         mile radius of a hospital or critical access hospital.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2025

    Mr. Green of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
   the Committee on Ways and Means, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise 
 regulations to remove the requirement under the Medicare program that 
  an off-campus facility or organization shall be located within a 35-
         mile radius of a hospital or critical access hospital.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may cited as the ``Rural ER Access Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVING LOCATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM 
              APPLICABLE TO OFF-CAMPUS FACILITIES OR ORGANIZATIONS.

    Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall revise section 
413.65(e)(3)(i) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (or any 
successor regulation), to remove the requirement under the Medicare 
program that an off-campus facility or organization shall be located 
within a 35-mile radius of the campus of a hospital or critical access 
hospital that is the potential main provider to meet the location 
requirements to be eligible for provider-based status.
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