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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Preserving Access
to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016''.
(b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The Medicare program includes coverage for prosthetic
limbs under section 1861(s)(9) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395w(s)(9)).
(2) As a result of significant Federal and private
investment in research and development over the past decades,
beneficiaries with lower limb prostheses are able to maintain
optimal function and lead productive and independent lives.
(3) Federal spending for prosthetic devices in the Medicare
program has decreased by 15 percent between 2010 and 2014.
(4) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through
Medicare contractors known as Durable Medical Equipment
Medicare Administrative Contractors, released on July 16, 2015,
a document entitled ''Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Lower
Limb Prostheses (DL33787)'', which applies to all Medicare
beneficiaries across the United States.
(5) The policies proposed in this document would
comprehensively change the requirements under which a Medicare
beneficiary would qualify for a lower limb prosthetic device
and would seriously restrict access to modern prosthetic care.
(6) If finalized, the changes proposed in this document
would create coverage requirements that are inconsistent with
current clinical practice and would arbitrarily and
unreasonably deny Medicare beneficiaries access to prosthetic
limb technologies considered the current standard of care.
(7) Under these proposed policies, beneficiaries instead
would be eligible for prosthetic devices that are functionally
outdated, less durable, and less safe.
(8) The adverse impact of the Medicare contractors'
proposed policies extend well beyond the Medicare program and
has implications for other Federal health programs, such as
health programs of the Veterans Administration, and commercial
insurers.
(9) Given the far reaching effect of these policies, and
the fact that little or no clinical or scientific evidence
supported the issuance of these proposals, any changes to
prosthetic limb coverage should be made only after a
transparent process in which evidence is offered to justify
coverage modifications, meaningful stakeholder feedback is
solicited, and the Secretary and Medicare contractors receive
and respond to this stakeholder feedback in a public manner.
(10) A moratorium on the implementation and enforcement of
these proposed policies would enable the Secretary and the
Medicare contractors to engage in such a transparent process.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPOSED MEDICARE LOCAL
COVERAGE DETERMINATION ON LOWER LIMB PROSTHESES.

(a) Moratorium.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services
and any Medicare Administrative Contractor may not implement
and enforce the policies in the LCD on lower limb prostheses
(as defined in subsection (d)(1)), in whole or in part, during
the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,
and ending on June 30, 2017.
(2) Removal of policy from websites.--The Secretary of
Health and Human Services and its medicare administrative
contractors shall remove the LCD on lower limb prostheses from
the websites of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
and its medicare administrative contractors during the period
of the moratorium under paragraph (1).
(b) Providing the Secretary With Authority To Oversee the
Development of Local Coverage Determinations.--Section 1862(l)(5) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 395y(l)(5)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);
and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new
subparagraph:
''(C) Secretary oversight and guidance in
developing local coverage determinations.--The
Secretary shall provide guidance and oversight of any
local coverage determination developed by a medicare
administrative contractor to ensure that the local
coverage determination is consistent with this
title.''.
(c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prevent the Secretary from enforcing existing statutes, regulations,
and local coverage determinations other than with respect to policies
in the LCD on lower limb prostheses.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) LCD on lower limb prostheses.--The term ''LCD on lower
limb prostheses'' means the local coverage determination on
lower limb prostheses as proposed by a medicare administrative
contractor in the document (DL33787) released on July 16, 2015,
and any successor to such determination.
(2) Medicare administrative contractor.--The term
''medicare administrative contractor'' has the meaning given
such term in section 1874A(a)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395kk-1(a)(3)(A)).
Preserving Access to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to postpone implementation and enforcement ofa local coverage determination (LCD) proposed by a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) on lower limb prostheses. (An LCD is a decision by a MAC, which is a private insurer that processes Medicare claims within a specified geographicjurisdiction, as towhether to cover a service on a MAC-wide basis.) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid shall provide guidance and oversight related to LCDs, as specified by the bill.