Health
New Trump Administration rule improves surprise billing protections from the bipartisan No Surprises Act – reversing years of implementation failure…
Read More (Chairman Smith Applauds Trump Administration Actions Correcting Failed Biden-Era Implementation of No Surprises Act )Committee-approved bills expand Medicare coverage to tests and treatments administered by local pharmacists and new home dialysis supports, independent physicians…
Read More (Ways and Means Committee Continues to Expand Health Care Access for Seniors in Rural and Underserved Areas)New anti-fraud guardrails prevent theft of taxpayer-funded benefits in Medicare, TANF, and unemployment insurance. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Republicans…
Read More (Ways and Means-Approved Policies Fight Fraud In Critical Safety Net Programs)“The policies we will consider today complement President Trump’s new anti-fraud task force by helping recover stolen taxpayer dollars and…
Read More (Chairman Smith Opening Statement at Markup of Anti-Fraud, Health, and Social Security Legislation)WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) joined NewsNation’s Morning in America to discuss the Committee’s…
Read More (ICYMI: Chairman Smith on Morning in America: “I don’t know of any farms on East 68th Street in Manhattan.”)WASHINGTON, D.C. – CEOs representing some of the nation’s largest health systems, including the largest for-profit and tax-exempt hospital systems in…
Read More (Nine Key Moments: Hearing with Health System CEOs )WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) joined CNBC’s Squawk Box ahead of a full Committee…
Read More (ICYMI: Chairman Smith on Squawk Box: Not-for-profit hospitals “look like hedge funds with hospital beds.”)WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) delivered the following opening statement at a hearing with…
Read More (Chairman Smith to Hospital System CEOs: The Prices You Charge Patients Are Borderline Extortion)“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California?” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Medicare fraud is a massive problem…
Read More (Seven Key Moments: Hearing on Medicare Fraud )WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Republicans emphasized the importance of expanding access to health care for Americans – particularly…
Read More (Seven Key Moments: Hearing with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. )