legislative priority · 2024
Reserve rural hospital benefits for rural providers
Carol Miller and Representative Dave Taylor introduced the Defend Rural Health Act to close a loophole that lets large urban hospitals classify as both urban and rural. The bill would prevent those hospitals from accessing benefits reserved for rural providers, safeguarding federal resources for rural hospitals and the communities they serve.
Context: The proposal was introduced jointly with Representative Dave Taylor; the supplied text does not specify the bill’s status after introduction.
In their own words
The bill closes a long-standing loophole that has allowed large urban hospitals to simultaneously classify as both “urban” and “rural,”
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Retrieved: 11/10/2026