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Chuck Grassley Praises Trump Admin., Dr. Oz For Adding Rural Hospitals To Innovative Payment System
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5/20/2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) spoke about the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration.
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Mr. President, I recognize the senator from Iowa.
00:05
Rural hospitals in America are under the gun.
00:11
Some of them are closing.
00:14
We have about 90 rural hospitals in the state of Iowa.
00:20
For a change, I have some good news for rural hospitals.
00:24
For years, I've been pressing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS for short,
00:33
to open applications for the 10 unfilled spots in a program that we call Rural Community Hospital Demonstration.
00:45
This program allows Medicare to test innovative payment models to support rural hospitals.
00:55
It boosts the financial viability for rural hospitals that are too large to be critical access hospitals
01:06
and yet too small to benefit from Medicare's hospital inpatient prospective payment system.
01:15
Currently, the program is helping four rural hospitals in Iowa, in Fort Dodge, Grinnell, Newton, and Spirit Lake.
01:28
Now, for years, I've heard excuses from the executive branch for why they wouldn't fill the open spots with interested rural hospitals.
01:40
So, earlier this year, I asked CMS Administrator Dr. Oz to fill the open spots in this rural hospital program.
01:53
Finally, on May the 14th, Dr. Oz announced 10 new hospitals will be added to the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program.
02:06
Also, hospitals who applied but were not selected will be put on a wait list if other spots open up.
02:17
Now, until this time, CMS has been underutilizing this program and ignoring the interest of rural hospitals.
02:27
I appreciate the Trump administration taking action to help rural America this way through helping a few more rural hospitals.
02:38
I yield the floor.
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