Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Rural Inclusion Act”.
Rural Inclusion Act
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit certain clinics to qualify as a rural emergency hospital under the Medicare program.
Sec. 2 Permitting certain clinics to qualify as a Medicare rural emergency hospital
in paragraph (3)—
in subparagraph (A), by striking “or” at the end;
in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
“(C) was a Federally qualified health center (as defined in subsection (aa)(4)) that formerly participated in the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration under section 434 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.”
in subparagraph (4)(B)(i), by inserting “or, in the case of a facility described in paragraph (3)(C), as a Federally qualified health center,” after “1886(d)(1)(B)),”.
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.