Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2015

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 114th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

ASR SmithSponsor

96 cosponsors · 20 D, 76 R

LJR Jenkins DLD Loebsack GWR Walden TYR Young THR Huelskamp KCR Cramer SDR Duffy GHR Harper CPD Peterson RRR Ribble DHD Heck STR Tipton PWD Welch GGR Grothman MPD Pocan BSR Shuster CBD Bustos WJR Jones MPR Pompeo PRR Roe MSR Simpson JSR Shimkus TWD Walz RBR Blum PDD DeFazio RKD Kind DKD Kilmer RWR Williams JFR Fortenberry BHR Huizenga SPR Palazzo RND Nolan BGR Guthrie CMR McMorris Rodgers RZR Zinke LMR Messer KNR Noem EWR Whitfield MBR Bost SKR King DYR Young FGR Guinta JHR Herrera Beutler ESR Stefanik EPR Paulsen ABR Barr LBR Bucshon BCR Carter AKD Kuster JSR Smith JKR Katko MAR Amodei DBR Benishek BJR Johnson DYR Young DNR Newhouse SSR Stivers RAR Abraham RHD Hinojosa BMD McCollum SCD Cohen RCR Crawford MBR Blackburn TRR Rokita MMR Meadows SDD DelBene AHD Hastings JHR Heck JWR Walorski PGR Gosar DBR Black AKR Kinzinger MTR Thornberry TYR Yoho CGR Gibson RDR Davis RER Ellmers EJR Jenkins MLD Lujan Grisham JHD Huffman CSR Stewart TER Emmer DMR McKinley RHR Hanna MMR Mullin BFR Farenthold DRR Rouzer BLD Luján TMR Marino KBR Buck TWR Walberg JHR Hensarling WHR Hurd CLR Lummis DRR Reichert MCR Coffman

4 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services under which a physician must certify that a patient may reasonably be expected to be discharged or transferred to a hospital within 96 hours after admission to the critical access hospital.