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This bill, known as the "Community Access to Treatment and Care for Health through Increased Testing Act" or "CATCH IT Act", aims to make it easier for rural health facilities to purchase and upgrade preventative health care equipment through the Department of Agriculture's Community Facilities Grant Program. Specifically, the bill increases the federal cost share by 25 percentage points for rural health facilities that purchase or upgrade preventative health care equipment. The bill defines preventative health care equipment to include advanced medical technologies such as digital breast tomosynthesis equipment, mobile cancer screening units, multi-cancer early detection laboratory equipment, colorectal cancer screening equipment, computerized tomography scanners, and diagnostic ultrasound equipment. These changes will be implemented at the start of the first federal fiscal year following the bill's enactment, providing rural health facilities with enhanced financial support to invest in critical medical diagnostic and screening technologies that can help detect serious health conditions earlier and potentially improve patient outcomes.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5858/all-info