Extending disproportionate share payments for sole community hospitals and medicare-dependent hospitals
Title I — Rural provider payment stabilization › Subtitle A — Rural hospitals
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Section 1886 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww) is amended— (1) in subsection (d)(5)(F)(i), by inserting, including, with respect to discharges occurring in fiscal year 2026 and each subsequent fiscal year, a subsection (d) hospitals that is a sole community hospitals paid the amount described in subparagraph (D)(i)(I) or a medicare-dependent, small rural hospital paid the amount described in subparagraph (G), after subsection (d) hospital; and (2) in subsection (r)(2), by inserting (including, with respect to fiscal year 2026 and each subsequent fiscal year, subsection (d) hospitals that are sole community hospitals or medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals described in subsection (d)(5)(F)(i)) after such subsection (d) hospitals.