Patient Accessibility and Access To Community Healthcare Act or the PAATCH Act
This bill allows a hospital that was designated as a sole community hospital on or before March 13, 2020, to retain this status for a 10-year period beginning on the date of the bill's enactment.
Sole community hospitals are rural hospitals or hospitals that are the sole source of inpatient care in a certain geographic area. Such hospitals receive specialized treatment with respect to Medicare payment, the 340B drug discount program, and other health care programs.
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve sole 
 community hospital determinations made by the Secretary of Health and 
                Human Services, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Patient Accessibility and Access To 
Community Healthcare Act'' or the ``PAATCH Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESERVATION OF SOLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DETERMINATIONS MADE BY 
              THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

    Section 1886(d)(5)(D)(iii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(d)(5)(D)(iii)) is amended--
            (1) in subclause (II), by striking at the end ``or'';
            (2) in subclause (III), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``, or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subclause:
                                    ``(IV) for the 10-year period 
                                beginning on the date of the enactment 
                                of this subclause, that met either of 
                                the requirements specified in 
                                subclauses (I) through (III) (as in 
                                effect on the date of the enactment of 
                                this subclause) on or before March 13, 
                                2020.''.
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PAATCH Act
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve sole community hospital determinations made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.
PAATCH Act
Patient Accessibility and Access To Community Healthcare Act
Rep. Waltz, Michael