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Search Results: keywords:"medicare reimbursement"

S. 5502 — To ensure continued access to diabetes technology upon Medicare enrollment, and for other purposes.
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December 12, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:2,410
The bill titled "Diabetes Interventions Addressing Barriers to Enrollment, Technology, and Education Services (DIABETES) Act" aims to improve access to diabetes technology and education for Medicare enrollees. It calls for better recognition and reimbursement of essential...
Simple Explanation
The DIABETES Act wants to make sure that people who get Medicare can easily get the special tools and training they need to take care of their diabetes. It's like helping everyone with diabetes have the same good stuff to stay healthy without extra fuss or big costs.
H. R. 10073 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase support for physicians and other practitioners in adjusting to Medicare payment changes.
October 29, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:450
H.R. 10073 aims to amend the Social Security Act to extend support for physicians and other healthcare practitioners to help them adapt to changes in Medicare payments. Specifically, it modifies the Act to extend through 2025 the time frame during which certain supportive...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 10073 is a plan to help doctors and other healthcare workers get used to changes in how much they get paid by Medicare, which is a program for older people to help with medical costs. It wants to add extra support for them and make a small increase in the payments from 2025 to 2026.
S. 552 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of critical access hospital services furnished by a critical access hospital located in a noncontiguous State.
February 12, 2025
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:119
Words:492
S. 552 is a bill introduced in the 119th Congress aimed at changing how critical access hospitals located in noncontiguous states, like Alaska and Hawaii, are reimbursed for their services under the Social Security Act. Starting January 1, 2026, these hospitals would receive...
Simple Explanation
Imagine a small hospital far away in places like Alaska or Hawaii. This bill wants to give those hospitals a little more money, starting in 2026, to help them keep taking care of sick people, ride in ambulances, and stay in nursing homes.
S. 106 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage for all physicians’ services furnished by doctors of chiropractic within the scope of their license, and for other purposes.
January 16, 2025
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:119
Words:827
S. 106, titled the "Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025," aims to expand Medicare to cover all services provided by doctors of chiropractic, as long as these services fall within their state-authorized scope of practice. Currently, chiropractic coverage...
Simple Explanation
S. 106 is about letting Medicare, a special health program, pay for more types of treatments done by chiropractors (who help with your bones and muscles) so that it's like what other big health programs already do. This means people who see these doctors might get more help covered by Medicare when they follow their state's rules.
H. R. 9128 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a designation for territorial safety net hospitals, and for other purposes.
July 24, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:4,102
H.R. 9128 aims to modify the Social Security Act to identify certain hospitals in U.S. territories like the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands as "territorial safety net hospitals." This designation allows these hospitals to receive higher...
Simple Explanation
H.R. 9128 wants to make sure hospitals in special U.S. places like Guam and the Virgin Islands get paid a bit more for helping people, so they can take better care of everyone. It also wants to give them help buying medicines at lower prices!
S. 249 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to facilitate patient access to certain pediatric technologies.
January 24, 2025
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:119
Words:836
The bill S. 249 aims to amend the Social Security Act to improve access to certain pediatric technologies. It requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish national relative value units, necessary for setting payment rates, for qualifying pediatric...
Simple Explanation
This bill helps make special medical devices for kids easier to get by setting fair prices, so doctors and hospitals can use them more often when helping children.
S. 4395 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a floor on the work geographic index for physicians' services furnished in Hawaii.
May 23, 2024
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:250
S. 4395, also known as the "Protecting Access To Care in Hawaii Act" or the "PATCH Act," aims to change the Social Security Act to help doctors in Hawaii. The bill proposes setting a minimum value, or floor, of 1.5 on the "work geographic index," which factors into how much...
Simple Explanation
This bill wants to make sure that doctors in Hawaii get paid a fair amount by setting a minimum rule for a special number used to decide their pay, starting in 2025. This means that even if things change, the number used for their pay won't go below a certain point.

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