S. 3559, Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act of 2020

Case summary

This page is not a court case. It carries one document: S. 3559, the Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act of 2020, a bill introduced in the Senate on March 21, 2020 by Mr. Bennet, with Mr. Barrasso, Ms. Smith, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Jones and Mrs. Hyde-Smith, and referred to the Committee on Finance. The bill would provide emergency financial assistance to rural health care facilities and providers affected by the COVID-19 emergency: section 2 creates an emergency operating grant program for eligible Medicare participating facilities, with allotments based on patient days multiplied by $1,000 plus reimbursements; section 3 raises swing bed reimbursements for rural hospitals by 20 percent; section 4 authorizes emergency grants for physicians' and health care providers' practices; and section 5 provides emergency low-interest loans for such practices at interest not above .25 percent. The page carries the bill as introduced; nothing on this page records any later action on it.