Rural Emergency Hospitals: A New Provider Type Designed to Preserve Access to Outpatient Care in Rural Areas
AHLA thanks the leaders of the Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group for contributing this feature article.
- February 01, 2023
- Justin K. Brown , Bass Berry & Sims PLC
- Travis G. Lloyd , Bass Berry & Sims PLC
The rural emergency hospital (REH), a new Medicare provider type created by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA),1 aims to preserve access to outpatient hospital services in rural communities whose hospitals cannot sustain inpatient operations.2 REHs must provide emergency department (ED) and observation care, may provide other outpatient services, and cannot provide inpatient services, except for certain skilled nursing facility (SNF) services.3
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