Blunt urges Trump’s DHH director to give aid to rural health providers

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Blunt urges Trump’s DHH director to give aid to rural health providers

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:14
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt – who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies – joined a bipartisan, bicamera group of 121 members of Congress in sending a letter to the Trump administration calling for immediate assistance to rural hospitals and clinics. The lawmakers specifically called on Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to use funding included in the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to sustain rural health providers. ROY u.s. The CARES Act included $100 billion to reimburse health providers for costs associated with responding to COVID-19. “It is important that these funds are provided to rural providers because the decision to cease performing elective procedures and seeing non-urgent patients can affect rural hospitals more significantly, (and) because they have smaller population bases and smaller financial margins,” information from-Blunt’s office stated. In…

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