Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act
Rep. Griffith Introduces the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act to Expand Hospital Options
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Physician-owners are essentially small business operators in healthcare. This bill lifts the expansion freeze on existing physician-owned hospitals and opens the door for new ones in qualifying rural areas. Doctors who want to invest in and run their own facilities would gain significant new business opportunities that have been blocked since the Affordable Care Act imposed ownership restrictions in 2010.
“The requirement described in paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply beginning on the date of the enactment of this paragraph.”
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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7 articlesPhysicians, hospitals, policymakers gear up for clash over hospital ownership rules
Lawmakers have introduced the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act (H.R. 2191/S. 1390) to allow doctors to own hospitals in rural areas at least 35 miles from existing facilities. The bill faces a clash between medical societies and hospital groups like the AHA and FAH.
What's changing for physician-owned hospitals in 2025?
Federal lawmakers introduced a bill in March 2025 that would allow physician ownership of rural hospitals located more than 35 miles from a main campus or 15 miles in mountainous terrain. The legislation aims to broaden access to care in underserved communities through direct physician involvement.
Bill would allow physician-owned hospitals in rural areas
The Physician-Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act (H.R. 2191) would permit physicians to own rural hospitals more than 35 miles from existing campuses and lift expansion limits on existing physician-owned facilities. The AMA has voiced strong support for the bipartisan proposal.
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Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act
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