WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care joined U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) in introducing the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act, which would extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) (https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.cms.gov%2Fpriorities%2Finnovation%2Finnovation-models%2Frural-community-hospital-demonstration/1/0100019ddf9bd716-be8e30c4-d89b-4a0f-9c79-ef5ccdd15ff4-000000/0npdwahzSGerREmo-fj9c0qpS_mMF8KUtlBZWSvcdcE=452) for five years. RCHD provides a lifeline to rural hospitals by allowing them to test innovative hosp...