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Representative LaMalfa warns rural critical‑access hospitals could close after CMS mileage recalculation
Summary
Rep. Doug LaMalfa told the Rules Committee that a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recalculation of the 35‑mile criterion for critical access hospital eligibility has threatened small rural hospitals' status and funding, citing his district's Glenn Medical Center as an example.
Representative Doug LaMalfa testified to the Rules Committee about a CMS administrative change that recalculated the 35‑mile distance used to determine eligibility for Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation. LaMalfa said the recalculation — which he said used a new routing method (via Google Maps) and a path that would not be used in an emergency — pushed a hospital in his Northern California district, Glenn Medical Center, below the mileage threshold after decades…
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