WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., today agreed that it will take both Congress and the administration to fix a Medicare reimbursement formula that is destabilizing hospitals and rural healthcare in low-wage states like Mississippi.
Hyde-Smith questioned Kennedy about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) Area Wage Index (AWI) during a Senate Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing (https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2027-budget-request-for-the-department-of-health-and-human-services) to review the HHS ...