SOAR Act surpasses 50 sign-ons
By HME News Staff
Updated 1:41 PM CDT, Wed May 13, 2026
WASHINGTON – More than 13 leading respiratory patient, physician and provider organizations applaud the now more than 50 co-sponsors for the Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform (SOAR) Act (H.R. 2902/S.1406), according to the Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC). The SOAR Act would modernize Medicare’s oxygen benefit, improve access to respiratory therapists, and strengthen patient protections – helping reduce avoidable hospitalizations and allowing people to remain active and independent, supporters say. Importantly, the SOAR Act would also restore access to liquid oxygen, which has become nearly impossible to obtain in many parts of the country, despite being essential for patients with the highest needs, they say. “By passing the SOAR Act, Congress can help the more than 1.5 million individuals living with COPD, heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, people awaiting lung transplants and other advanced chronic respiratory diseases who rely on supplemental oxygen live independently and healthily,” the organizations stated in a letter to Congress. This bill also addresses challenges faced by people who are low-income and rural and medically underserved who currently struggle to secure adequate care.”
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