Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the non-application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex rehabilitative manual 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, manual 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. 3730 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3730

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2017

Mr. Zeldin (for himself, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Blum, Mr. Reed, 
  Mr. Kind, Mr. Amodei, Ms. Bonamici, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Sean 
   Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, Mr. 
   Moulton, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Courtney, Mr. 
 Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Latta, Mr. Tiberi, 
 Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Sires, Mr. Turner, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Langevin, 
Mr. Crowley, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Graves of Georgia, Ms. Jenkins 
   of Kansas, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Nunes, Mr. Loebsack, Ms. Esty of 
Connecticut, Mr. Rush, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Higgins of New York, 
  Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pocan, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Keating, Ms. 
 Kaptur, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. Bost) 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 manual 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 MANUAL 
              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 the date that is 30 days 
                        after the date of the enactment of this clause, 
                        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 all 
                        complex rehabilitative manual 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 
                        wheelchair.''.
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