Legislation Would Ensure Long-Term Integrity of Medicaid ProgramWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., introduced the “Protect Medicaid Act,” which would prohibit federal taxpayer money...
Wicker, Fischer, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Protect Rural Seniors
Bill Would Halt Damaging Medicare Staffing RuleWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined Senator Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and his colleagues in introducing the Protecting Rural Seniors’...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith Welcome Enactment of Organ Donation Reform Bill
Miss. Senators Cosponsored Measure to Change Policy that Harms Transplant Patients in the South, MidwestWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Schatz Lead Reintroduction of Bill to Expand Telehealth Access, Make Permanent Telehealth Flexibilities
60 Senators Cosponsor Bipartisan ‘CONNECT For Health Act,’ Most Comprehensive Telehealth Legislation in CongressWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and...
Wicker, Merkley, Colleagues Introduce Resolution Celebrating National Nurses Week
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., teamed up with Representatives Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., Jen Kiggans, R-Va., and Lauren...
Wicker Joins Effort to Recognize National Osteopathic Medicine Week
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in reintroducing a...
Wicker Backs Open Debate on COVID Origin
Dissenting Views, Once Ridiculed, are Now MainstreamThis month, in a moment of bipartisanship, both the Senate and the House unanimously passed a bill to require the Biden administration to...
Wicker Fights Against Rural Physician Shortage
Miss. Senator Reintroduces SPARC ActWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined his colleague Senator Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., in reintroducing the bipartisan Specialty Physicians Advancing...
Wicker, Klobuchar, Bilirakis, Matsui Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Increase Cancer Patient Access to Molecular Diagnostic Testing
The Finn Sawyer Access to Cancer Testing Act would ensure patients on Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP can receive testing at the time of their diagnosisWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker,...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith Push to Preserve Medicare Reimbursements for Rural Hospitals
Bipartisan Senate Group Wants to Avoid September Expiration of Low Wage Index Hospital PolicyWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., are part of a...