Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1516
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Neurological disorders
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) items designed or individually configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, or functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) or instrumental ADLs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) designate CRT items (excluding adaptive equipment to operate motor vehicles or certain prosthetic devices and orthotics); and (2) establish eligibility criteria for them. 
 
Prescribes requirements for payments for CRT items. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish standards for clinical conditions for CRT item payment as well as quality standards for suppliers of such items.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a formal process to allow submission of CRT code set modification requests by stakeholder groups for comprehensive coding changes related to entire policy groups.
 
Requires payment for replacement of a CRT item (or any part of one), without regard to certain continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions established for items of durable medical equipment, if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 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.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 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.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 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.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House