S. 553 119th Congress Senate

SOLES Act

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a floor on payments to sole community hospitals located in Alaska and Hawaii under the hosp… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a floor on payments to sole community hospitals located in Alaska and Hawaii under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system.

Introduced: February 12, 2025 Introduced by: Dan Sullivan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov

Health AlaskaHawaiiHealth care costs and insuranceHome and outpatient careMedicare

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 12, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Save our Lone Emergency Services Act or the SOLES Act

This bill requires Medicare payments to sole community hospitals in Alaska or Hawaii to cover at least 94% of the reasonable costs of covered outpatient services.

Related & companion bills 1

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Finance Committee
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HARGAN STRATEGIES, FORMERLY REPORTED AS HARGAN AND ASSOCIATES
for FOUNDATION HEALTH PARTNERS · Alaska · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)

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Cosponsors 2

Murkowski, Lisa

Alaska · Feb 12, 2025

Schatz, Brian

Hawaii · Feb 12, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 553: SOLES Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-553/

MLA

"S. 553: SOLES Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-553/.

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S. 553, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-553/.

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