WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Katie Britt issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) recently joined Representative Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) and the entire Alabama congressional delegation in sending a letter (https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Alabama-Delegation-letter-to-CMS-regarding-the-Area-Wage-Index_1205253.pdf) to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz.
"We join together in asking CMS to use its regulatory authority to implement a less restrictive reclassification mechanism for the lowest wage index hospitals by allowing a low wage index provider that is within fifty (50) miles of a higher paid wage area (urban or rural) to reclassify to that area and...