WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today highlighted bipartisan legislation she's joined to extend a federal health program that provides a financial lifeline to rural hospitals, including six participating facilities in Mississippi.
The Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act (S.4460) (https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/S4460%20Rural%20Community%20Hospital%20Demonstration%20Reauthorization%20Act.pdf) would reauthorize the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) program for another five years. Rural hospitals in the RCHD program are allowed to test innovative Medicare hospital payment models that improve fi...