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Lankford Fights to Protect Rural Health Care for Oklahomans
Web[Rural health care] is a very significant issue for Oklahoma, just like it is for your state. My state is 4 million people—2 million of those live in urban areas and 2 million of those live in rural areas. And, so we understand full well what it means to have the critical needs for hospitals in rural areas there.
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Lankford Leads Fight to Protect Oklahoma’s Health Care Funding
WebWASHINGTON, DC– Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today, on the heels of the Biden Administration suspending Title X family planning grant funding in response to the state’s efforts to protect life, introduced a bicameral bill to clarify that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cannot discriminate against Title X grantees, …
Lankford, Colleagues Continue to Push for More Options in …
WebSenator Lankford is a champion of improving health care for all Americans,” said John R. Harvey, M.D., CEO of Oklahoma Heart Hospital. POHs represent less than five percent of the nearly 6,000 hospitals nationwide. However, POHs continue to successfully provide individualized and innovative care in the communities they serve. They remain
Lankford Pushes to Expand Telehealth Access
WebOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and 50 senators to introduce the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act. The CONNECT for Health Act will expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 …
Lankford Advocates for Physician-Owned Hospitals to Expand …
WebHowever, POHs have a successful track record of providing individualized and innovative quality care, and they meet a growing demand for health care services, especially in rural areas. Seventy-three percent of POHs with a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) overall hospital quality star rating earned three or more stars in …
Lankford, Colleagues Push for Greater Health Care Access for …
WebOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and his colleagues today announced the reintroduction of the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act, which removes the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ban on the creation and expansion of new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and allows POHs to participate in …
Lankford Continues to Stand Up for Rural Access to Quality Health …
WebOklahomans deserve reasonable access to the health care services they want and need, whether they are a retiree on a ranch in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, or a school teacher in Hollis, Oklahoma. Lankford remains a strong advocate for addressing health care access deficiencies in rural Oklahoma and around the nation.
Lankford Wants to Keep Improving Access to Health Care for Rural
WebLankford remains a strong advocate for addressing health care access deficiencies in rural Oklahoma and around the nation. Last week, Lankford introduced his Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act, which would support financially vulnerable rural hospitals facing risk of closure. Lankford announced a huge win late last year for rural hospital access
Lankford Wants to Protect Oklahomans from Flashy Health Plans …
WebCLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on YouTube. CLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s Q&A on Rumble. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled, “Barriers to Mental Health Care: Improving Provider Directory Accuracy to Reduce the Prevalence of Ghost …
Lankford Advocates for Continued Rural Health Access
WebMany individuals in rural areas, in fact, the dominant proportion in many rural areas receiving health care receiving it through Medicaid or Medicare. We want to make sure that those providers providing those high-need areas are reimbursed appropriately. But in 2006, Congress shifted the designation for Critical Access Hospitals and took away
Lankford Pushes Back on Medicare Advantage Proposals That Risk …
WebWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID), to urge government health officials to take steps to prevent adverse outcomes for patients who rely on Medicare Advantage (MA), following a February 2023 proposal from the Centers for …
Lankford Leads Delegation Letter to HHS challenging withdrawal …
WebWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is leading the Oklahoma congressional delegation on a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra for suspending the $4.5 million Title X Family Planning grant awarded to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH). HHS is suspending this …
Lankford Takes On Children’s Mental Health During Senate Hearing
WebCLICK HERE to watch Lankford’s remarks on Rumble. WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on “Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part I – An Advisory and Call to Action,” with US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifying. Lankford focused the impacts of marijuana
Lankford, Durbin to HHS, Ensure Rural Hospitals Have Help During
WebOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) urged Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to ensure rural hospitals have the needed support to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and maintain financial stability to continue serving their communities. The Senators …
Lankford Supports Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act
WebWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today joined 15 new cosponsors of Senator David Perdue’s (R-GA) bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. Lankford’s support brings the total number of senators on the bill to 21. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would recapture a limited number of unused visas from prior …
Lankford, Colleagues Stand Up Against Medicare’s Planned …
WebThank you for your continued commitment to ensuring all health care providers have the resources they critically need to provide quality health care to Medicare beneficiaries. We write to you regarding the Medicare hospital area wage index (AWI) in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). Specifically, we urge you to include a four …
Lankford Aims to Create Parity within Indian Health Care System
WebThe Indian health system is made up of the Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal health programs and urban Indian organizations (UIOs). UIOs provide culturally competent medical, dental, and specialty care for the over 70 percent of AI/ANs who live in urban centers. The Urban Indian Health Confer Act would require all agencies within the …
Senator Lankford Statement on Revised Senate Healthcare Bill
WebWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) made the following statement on today’s release of Senate Republican’s revised healthcare reform bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), which intends to stablize healthcare markets, lower premiums, and give the states more control over healthcare regulation: “I believe we …
Lankford, Colleagues Protect Health Care Workers from …
WebWASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today reintroduced the Conscience Protection Act of 2021 to protect healthcare providers, including health insurance plans from government discrimination if they decline to participate in abortions. The Conscience Protection Act also provides a private right of action for victims of …
Lankford Introduces Bill to Prevent Medicaid Money from …
WebWASHINGTON, DC – US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today introduced the Women’s Public Health and Safety Act, S. 4658, which gives states the authority to exclude abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. Under current law, states are required to allow any qualified provider to participate in a state’s …
Lankford Sounds the Alarm on the VA’s Proposed Plan to Illegally
WebOKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough to share his concerns with a not -yet-public Interim Final Rule (IFR) recently submitted by the VA to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) pertaining to “reproductive health services” at the VA, that …
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