Protecting Hospitals from Disaster Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]
Introduced
Summary
Disaster-readiness support for facility-based providers would become a required function of Quality Improvement Organizations so hospitals, nursing homes, and similar facilities get help preparing for and responding to extreme weather. The goal is to reduce physical and chronic risks to those providers and their patients.
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- Hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, critical access hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities would receive targeted help from QIOs to improve planning and response to extreme weather.
- Residents and patients in those facilities would face lower immediate and ongoing health risks when extreme weather strikes because facilities would get organized preparedness and response support.
- Quality Improvement Organizations would gain a new, explicit duty to provide disaster-readiness support to the defined set of facility-based providers.
- The bill creates a funding mechanism through an inter-account transfer so CMS can manage and require the new QIO activities.
*Authorizes a $50.0 million transfer from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to the CMS Program Management Account for FY2026 to fund the QIO disaster-readiness support.*
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Help hospitals prepare for disasters
This bill would require the Secretary to transfer $50,000,000 from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to CMS for fiscal year 2026. The money would remain available until expended. CMS would use it to require Quality Improvement Organizations to give facility-based providers support to prepare for and respond to extreme weather. Facility-based 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, Donald S. [D-VA-8]
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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