SNAP asked members of PA’s congressional delegation to sign a bipartisan letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Azar asking the Secretary to prevent pharmaceutical companies from denying access to discounted prescription drugs made available through the federal section 340B prescription drug discount program.
SNAP has endorsed a U.S. House proposal to delay implementation of the Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation. If implemented, that regulation could affect access to care for some of the 2.8 million Pennsylvanians currently enrolled in Medicaid.
SNAP urged Pennsylvania senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey to advocate six proposals that the state’s safety-net hospitals seek in new federal COVID-19 legislation.
SNAP wrote to PA Department of Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller to point out challenges that arise in the potential use and interpretation of data hospitals have reported in DHS’s survey of hospitals’ financial condition as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SNAP asks senators Casey and Toomey to advocate five specific policy initiatives that Pennsylvania’s safety-net hospitals need.
SNAP asks CMS administrator Seema Verma to give special consideration to high-volume Medicaid hospitals when deciding on additional grants to be awarded from federal CARES Act funding for hospitals and health care providers.
SNAP asks members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to support providing additional money for safety-net hospitals in future coronavirus-related legislation.
SNAP asks members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to sign onto a bipartisan letter written by delegation members Brendan Boyle (D) and Mike Kelly (R) asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administration to reconsider a proposed regulation that could limit the state’s ability to finance its share of its Medicaid spending and appropriately reimburse providers of high volumes of Medicaid-covered services.
SNAP asks members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to sign onto a bipartisan letter written by delegation members Brendan Boyle (D) and Mike Kelly (R) asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administration to reconsider a proposed regulation that could limit the state’s ability to finance its share of its Medicaid spending and appropriately reimburse providers of high volumes of Medicaid-covered services.
SNAP asks the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation that grants too much authority to federal regulators, limits states’ ability to finance their share of Medicaid spending, introduces ill-defined standards to the evaluation of state applications to modify their Medicaid programs, and imposes major new regulatory burdens on hospitals and state Medicaid programs.