SNAP has asked Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to support new funding for the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, the elimination of scheduled Medicaid DSH cuts, and the continued suspension of Medicare sequestration cuts in any legislation Congress passes in the coming weeks.
SNAP has asked members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to urge the Department of Health and Human Services to restore its June 2020 directions on how hospitals should calculate lost revenue associated with COVID-19 so they can keep federal aid designed to help them continue serving their communities.
SNAP has written to the Pennsylvania congressional delegation asking its members to urge congressional leaders to eliminate a cut in federal Medicaid DSH allotments to the states.
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.