“No” to Free Standing Emergency Rooms

 

OKFAHC and our advocates helped defeat a measure that would have propped up expensive, deceptive business practices that are failing patients in Texas.

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HB 1398 failed to advance in the Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee.  This measure would have supercharged the creation of many so-called “free-standing Emergency Rooms” in Oklahoma. These facilities are infamous for surprise-billing and price gouging, and the legislation would have watered down protections for patients.

 

Thank you to Senators Brooks, Coleman, Dugger, Garvin, Prieto and Woods for opposing the measure.