Title: Empowering Seniors' Enrollment Decision Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Empowering Seniors' Enrollment Decision Act of 2018
This bill provides statutory authority for the extension of a special enrollment period under Medicare Advantage (MA) to enrollees in certain Medicare Cost plans that are not transitioning into qualifying MA plans. Current regulations allow such enrollees (i.e., non-deemed individuals) to participate in the special enrollment period.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6662

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the special 
election period under part C of the Medicare program for certain deemed 
  individuals enrolled in a reasonable cost reimbursement contract to 
        certain nondeemed individuals enrolled in such contract.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 10, 2018

 Mr. Paulsen (for himself and Mr. Kind) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition 
      to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the special 
election period under part C of the Medicare program for certain deemed 
  individuals enrolled in a reasonable cost reimbursement contract to 
        certain nondeemed individuals enrolled in such contract.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Empowering Seniors' Enrollment 
Decision Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING THE SPECIAL ELECTION PERIOD UNDER PART C OF THE 
              MEDICARE PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN DEEMED INDIVIDUALS ENROLLED 
              IN A REASONABLE COST REIMBURSEMENT CONTRACT TO CERTAIN 
              NONDEEMED INDIVIDUALS ENROLLED IN SUCH CONTRACT.

    Section 1851(e)(2)(F) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
21(e)(2)(F)) is amended--
            (1) in the header, by striking ``deemed elections'' and 
        inserting ``individuals enrolled in a reasonable cost 
        reimbursement contract''; and
            (2) by amending clause (i) to read as follows:
                            ``(i) In general.--
                                    ``(I) Election period.--At any time 
                                during the period beginning after the 
                                last day of the annual, coordinated 
                                election period under paragraph (3) for 
                                an applicable plan year and ending on 
                                the last day of February of the first 
                                plan year following such applicable 
                                plan year, an individual who is an 
                                eligible individual (as defined in 
                                subclause (II)) with respect to such 
                                applicable plan year may change the 
                                election under subsection (a)(1) 
                                (including changing the MA plan or MA-
                                PD plan in which the individual is 
                                enrolled).
                                    ``(II) Eligible individual.--In 
                                this clause, the term `eligible 
                                individual' means, with respect to a 
                                plan year, an individual enrolled in a 
                                reasonable cost reimbursement contract 
                                under section 1876(h) that was extended 
                                or renewed for the last reasonable cost 
                                reimbursement contract year of the 
                                contract (as described in subclause (I) 
                                of section 1876(h)(5)(C)(iv)) pursuant 
                                to such section.''.
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