S 3085
117th Congress
Senate
Health
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicare
Oklahoma
Rural conditions and development
HARMON Oklahoma Act
Introduced: October 27, 2021
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 27, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 27, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Helping Account for Rural Medical Outpatient Needs in Oklahoma Act or the HARMON Oklahoma Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue to allow Harmon Memorial Hospital in Hollis, Oklahoma, to retain its designation as a critical access hospital and to seek designation as a rural emergency hospital under Medicare after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, as specified in a prior letter sent to the hospital. The bill also requires the CMS to issue final regulations implementing the newly created Medicare rural emergency hospital program by November 1, 2022.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1