Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4932
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2020-12-01
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel

Medicare

Surgery and anesthesia
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-01
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services to ensure that the value of evaluation and management post-operative visits in Medicare global surgical packages is equal to that of specified evaluation and management services as of January 1, 2021.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4932 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 1, 2020 Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure appropriate global surgical package code values in the Medicare program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2020 . 2. Ensuring appropriate global surgical package code values in medicare Section 1848(c)(8) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395w–4(c)(8) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (D) Ensuring appropriate global surgical package code values For services furnished on or after January 1, 2021, the Secretary shall ensure that the valuation of evaluation and management (E/M) post-operative visits is equal to the valuation of evaluation and management (E/M) services identified as of January 1, 2021, by HCPCS codes 99211–99215, 99217, 99224–99226, 99231–99233, 99238–99239, 99291–99292, and 99354–99357 (or any successor codes). .