Protecting Hospitals from Disaster Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Beyer
Introduced
Summary
Would expand Quality Improvement Organizations' (QIOs) role to help hospitals and other facility-based providers prepare for and respond to extreme weather. It would add a specific QIO mandate to deliver resilience and emergency-readiness support to those providers.
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- Facility-based providers would be covered — hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, critical access hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities would be eligible for QIO preparedness and response support.
- Patients and communities would benefit from stronger facility readiness and response aimed at reducing immediate harm and longer-term health risks from extreme weather.
- Administration and funding would be targeted — the bill would authorize a one-time transfer to CMS to fund QIO disaster-preparedness activities and link those activities to existing Medicare program authorities.
*Would authorize a one-time $50 million transfer from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to the CMS Program Management Account for fiscal year 2026, available until expended to fund QIO disaster-preparedness support.*
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
One-time disaster help for hospitals
This bill would transfer $50 million from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to CMS for fiscal year 2026. The funds would remain available until expended. The money would require Quality Improvement Organizations to give facility-based providers help preparing for and responding to extreme weather. Covered providers would include hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, critical access hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Beyer
VA • D
Cosponsors
Buchanan
FL • R
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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