Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2014

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that residents of rural and frontier communities should have access to affordable, quality health care. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to: the Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustment for rural hospitals; extension of the temporary increase in payments to certain rural hospitals (Medicare hold harmless provision); the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals; Medicare wage index reclassifications for certain hospitals; Medicare reasonable costs payments for certain clinical diagnostic laboratory tests furnished to hospitals in certain rural areas; elimination of the isolation test for the cost-based ambulance reimbursement for critical access hospitals; the capital infrastructure revolving loan program; the Medicare incentive payment program for physician scarcity areas; extension of the 1.00 floor on Medicare work geographic adjustment to payments for physician services; permission for physician assistants to order post-hospital extended care services or hospice care; Medicare home health care plannin…