Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the non-application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex rehabilitative wheelchairs and accessories.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex rehabilitative wheelchairs and accessories. (A competitive bidding program has replaced the use of established fee schedule amounts to determine payments under Medicare for certain durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1361 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1361

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the non-
   application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex 
              rehabilitative wheelchairs and accessories.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2017

Mr. Zeldin (for himself, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, 
  Mr. Latta, Mr. Renacci, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Ellison, Mrs. 
Blackburn, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Young of Iowa, Mr. 
 Blumenauer, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. 
    Lance, Mrs. Black, Mr. Crowley, and Ms. DeLauro) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
  Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 provide for the non-
   application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex 
              rehabilitative wheelchairs and accessories.

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

SECTION 1. CLARIFYING NON-APPLICATION OF MEDICARE COMPETITIVE 
              ACQUISITION RATES TO COMPLEX REHABILITATIVE WHEELCHAIRS 
              AND ACCESSORIES.

    Section 1834(a)(1)(F) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395m(a)(1)(F)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking at the end ``and'';
            (2) in clause (iii), by striking at the end the period and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iv) in the case of covered items 
                        furnished on or after July 1, 2017, the 
                        Secretary shall not apply this subparagraph or 
                        any other provision of this title to use 
                        information from the competitive acquisition 
                        program to determine payment amounts for items 
                        excluded from such competitive acquisition 
                        program, including all complex rehabilitative 
                        manual and power wheelchairs classified by the 
                        Secretary as of January 1, 2015, and, without 
                        limitation, any wheelchair accessory, cushion, 
                        or back when furnished in connection with a 
                        complex rehabilitative manual or power 
                        wheelchair.''.
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