HR 5753 United States House · 117th Congress

HARMON Oklahoma Act

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.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Oct 2021
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Introduced Oct 27, 2021 Last action Oct 28, 2021
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Oct 28, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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Oct 27, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Oct 27, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Oct 27, 2021
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Frank D. Lucas
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