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This bill, the Rural Health Care Access Act of 2023, aims to amend the Social Security Act to allow states to designate facilities located in rural areas as critical access hospitals without any mileage limitations. The key provision is the removal of the requirement that critical access hospitals must be located at least 35 miles from another hospital. This change is intended to improve access to healthcare services in rural communities by making it easier for facilities to be designated as critical access hospitals, which provides them with certain Medicare reimbursement benefits.