Protecting Life Until Natural Death Act

Bill: 116-hr-520
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2019-01-11
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting Life Until Natural Death Act</strong></p> <p>This bill excludes advanced care planning services from Medicare coverage,&nbsp;with the exception of&nbsp;certain hospice-related services that may include advising on end-of-life or advanced care planning.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 520 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 11, 2019 Mr. King of Iowa (for himself, Mr. Duncan , and Mr. Mooney of West Virginia ) 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 A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude coverage of advance care planning services under the Medicare program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Life Until Natural Death Act . 2. Exclusion of coverage of advance care planning services under the Medicare program Section 1862(a) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395y(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (24), by striking the or at the end; (2) in paragraph (25), by striking the period and inserting ; or ; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (25) the following new paragraph: (26) which are advance care planning services, other than under section 1812(a)(5). .