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This bill, the Save America's Rural Hospitals Act, aims to provide enhanced payments and regulatory relief to rural health care providers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Key provisions include: eliminating Medicare sequestration for rural hospitals, reversing cuts to reimbursement of bad debt for critical access hospitals (CAHs) and rural hospitals, extending payment increases for low-volume hospitals and Medicare-dependent hospitals, reinstating certain payment adjustments for sole community hospitals and Medicare-dependent hospitals, equalizing beneficiary copayments for services furnished by CAHs, eliminating the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient CAH services, rebasing supervision requirements for certain hospital outpatient services, and reforming practices of recovery audit contractors under Medicare. The bill also provides grants to support rural hospital flexibility, rural health transformation, and technical assistance for rural providers.

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