Medicare Organization Report Enhancing (MORE) Summaries Act

Bill: 118-s-3799
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-02-12
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2024-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-02-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Medicare Organization Report Enhancing (MORE) Summaries Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test a model under which explanations of Medicare benefits are sent more frequently to beneficiaries, either by mail or virtually, and through which the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services annually evaluates how well beneficiaries are able to identify fraud based on explanations of their benefits.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3799 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 12, 2024 Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate how the frequency of summary notices provided to patients can be increased, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare Organization Report Enhancing (MORE) Summaries Act . 2. Increasing the frequency of summary notices provided to Medicare beneficiaries Section 1115A of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315a ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(2)(A), by adding at the end the following new sentence: “The models selected under this subparagraph shall include the testing of the model described in subsection (h).”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (h) Increasing the frequency of and performing usability testing on summary notices (1) In general Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall establish and implement a model under which— (A) the frequency of the explanation of Medicare benefits under section 1806(a) that is provided to individuals for whom payment is made under title XVIII is increased, either by mail or virtually; and (B) the Secretary annually performs usability testing to ensure that individuals for whom payment is made under title XVIII understand how to identify fraud based on the information provided in the explanation of Medicare benefits provided to such individuals under section 1806(a). (2) Report to Congress In addition to the report required by subsection (g), not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress on the progress of the model in paragraph (1) and how such model will increase the frequency of the explanation of benefits in a timely manner. .