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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. The key provisions of the bill include: eliminating Medicare sequestration for rural hospitals, reversing cuts to reimbursement of bad debt for critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, extending permanently increased payment levels for low-volume and Medicare-dependent hospitals, reinstating revised diagnosis-related group payments and hold harmless treatment for outpatient services for sole community hospitals, making permanent increased Medicare payments for ground ambulance services in rural areas, extending Medicaid primary care payments, making permanent Medicare telehealth service enhancements for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics, restoring state authority to waive the 35-mile rule for certain Medicare critical access hospital designations, and testing a new rural hospital delivery and payment model. The bill also aims to provide regulatory relief and support for the future of rural health care.