Adjust Medicare payments for struggling rural hospitals

Sewell introduced the Save Struggling Hospitals Act to change Medicare payment formulas so they account for costs facing hospitals in rural and lower-wage areas. She presents the bill as a way to help save rural hospitals.

Context: The passage does not provide details of the payment formula changes.

In their own words

fix the Medicare payment formulas that do not account for the cost facing hospitals in rural and lower wage areas

The source

Terri Sewell: healthcare

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Retrieved: 11/11/2026