S. 5189 aims to amend the Social Security Act by waiving certain distance requirements for hospitals that elect to be designated as "critical access hospitals." This change would specifically apply to rural community hospitals that were part of a demonstration program under the Medicare...
Simple Explanation
This bill wants to help some small hospitals in the countryside by not making them follow all the usual rules about how far away they have to be from bigger hospitals. This will let them work in a special way to help more people in their communities.