119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Feb 12, 2025
SOLES Act
Official title from Congress.gov
Latest action (Feb 12, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Health
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Feb 12, 2025)
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.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Actions from Congress.gov, newest first.
Alaska · Hawaii · Health care costs and insurance · Home and outpatient care · Medicare
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FOUNDATION HEALTH PARTNERS · lobbying firm or registrant: HARGAN STRATEGIES, FORMERLY REPORTED AS HARGAN AND ASSOCIATES
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Medicare/Medicaid
$40,000
Paid to lobbying firm
H.R.4250/S.553, Save our Lone Emergency Services Act (SOLES Act) Issues relating to healthcare, including Medicare/Medicaid
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