BLUEFIELD, Va. — A ribbon was cut Friday to celebrate the opening of a new clinic offering primary care to people in Tazewell County, Va. and the surrounding area.
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The Daily Yonder Congress Fixed an Old Bill Threatening Fiscal Health of Rural Clinics A legislative glitch from 2020 Covid-19 relief package put many of the rural clinics at risk of deepening their fiscal distress. Newly passed legislation aims to fix that.
The Capitol as seen in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Legislation designed to prevent further financial instability for rural health clinics passed in the Senate, and soon after cleared the House.
The bipartisan Strengthening Rural Health Clinics Act of 2021, introduced by U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and Roy Blunt (R-Missouri), fixes a technical issue to protect existing rural health clinics from a sudden, unexpected Medicare payment rate change that was included in the December 2020 Covid-19 relief bill.