HR 538referred119th Congress

Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025

Introduced Jan 16, 2025House billPolicy area: HealthLast action Jan 16, 2025Sponsor: Adrian Smith(R-NE)

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Official summaryUpdated Jan 16, 2025

What the bill does

Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2025 This bill repeals the 96-hour physician-certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services under Medicare. Under current law, as a condition for Medicare payment for such services, a physician must certify that a patient may reasonably be expected to be discharged or transferred to a hospital within 96 hours after admission to the critical access hospital.

Latest official action

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$16.2M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 16, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 17, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INC (AHIP)

Jul 10, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Ways and Means Committee

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Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION	AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION	$6.2M	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	MMMHCRBUD
AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)	AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS INC (AHIP)	$4.8M	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	HCRMMMINS
AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.