Contact Congress about H.R. 2493: Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025

Rural health grant programs would stay in place for five more years. The bill would push grant projects to serve rural people who struggle most to get care and include them in planning.

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Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025 is a Senate bill waiting for floor action. The latest recorded action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 377.

Latest action on H.R. 2493: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 377.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects rural people who have a hard time getting health care. It also affects rural clinics, hospitals, health networks, and small providers that use federal grants to improve care. The Department of Health and Human Services would have to run the programs under these updated rules.

Why this matters: Many rural areas have fewer doctors, hospitals, and health services. This bill would keep federal grant support in place and aim it more clearly at communities with the hardest time getting care. It could also help local projects fit real local needs because residents would help plan and run them. The bill still depends on future funding decisions by Congress.

Key provisions in H.R. 2493

• Outreach grant money would go, when appropriate, toward the health needs of underserved rural people in the area served.
• Underserved rural residents would have to help develop outreach grant projects and keep them running.
• Rural health network grants would go, when appropriate, toward better access to quality care through connected rural provider networks.
• Underserved rural residents would have to benefit from these networks. They would also help plan, build, and carry out the work.
• The bill would keep rural outreach, network development, and small provider quality improvement grants authorized through fiscal years 2026-2030 instead of ending after 2025.

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Questions people ask about H.R. 2493

What is H.R. 2493?

Rural health grant programs would stay in place for five more years. The bill would push grant projects to serve rural people who struggle most to get care and include them in planning.

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