AHA, NRHA Lay Out Priorities For Senate Rural Health Caucus

The American Hospital Association and the National Rural Health Association are urging lawmakers to move forward on a host of priorities, including making permanent a range of “extender” policies that are typically tied to the flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate before they expire at the end of March and protecting the 340B program from any efforts to scale it back. “[T]o often, federal legislative and regulatory actions fail to account for the unique circumstances of these small and rural health...