Save Our Rural Health Providers Act This bill requires a specific portion of the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to be allocated to rural health care providers responding to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the bill requires that at least 20% of future appropriations and the unobligated balance of prior appropriations to the fund relating to COVID-19 provider assistance be reserved for rural health care providers, with priority given to providers serving a high number of Medicare or Medicaid enrollees, elderly or other high-risk individuals, uninsured individuals, or areas with limited health infrastructure.
AgingAppropriationsCardiovascular and respiratory healthDepartment of Health and Human ServicesEmergency medical services and trauma careExecutive agency funding and structureHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth facilities and institutionsHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careInfectious and parasitic diseasesMedicaidMedicareRural conditions and development
Save Our Rural Health Providers Act
USA116th CongressS-3823| Senate
| Updated: 5/21/2020
Save Our Rural Health Providers Act This bill requires a specific portion of the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to be allocated to rural health care providers responding to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the bill requires that at least 20% of future appropriations and the unobligated balance of prior appropriations to the fund relating to COVID-19 provider assistance be reserved for rural health care providers, with priority given to providers serving a high number of Medicare or Medicaid enrollees, elderly or other high-risk individuals, uninsured individuals, or areas with limited health infrastructure.
AgingAppropriationsCardiovascular and respiratory healthDepartment of Health and Human ServicesEmergency medical services and trauma careExecutive agency funding and structureHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth facilities and institutionsHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careInfectious and parasitic diseasesMedicaidMedicareRural conditions and development