Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013
Latest action · May 14, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 14, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology items designed and configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, and functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) designate complex rehabilitation technology items (excluding adaptive equipment to operate motor vehicles or certain prosthetic devices and orthotics), and (2) establish eligibility criteria for them.
Prescribes requirements for payments for CRT items.
Directs the Secretary to establish standards for clinical conditions for CRT item payment as well as quality standards for suppliers of such items.
Directs the Secretary to establish a Healthcare Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) coding subset that uses specified HCPCS codes for CRT items.
Requires payment for replacement of a CRT item (or any part of one), without regard to certain continuous use or useful lifetime restrictions established for items of durable medical equipment (DME), if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 14, 2013 to Nov 12, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | May 14, 2013 |
| R-MS | Roger F. Wicker | May 23, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Sep 12, 2013 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Sep 12, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Sep 23, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Dec 10, 2013 | |
| D-AR | Mark L. Pryor | Jan 15, 2014 | |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Mar 12, 2014 | |
| R-LA | David Vitter | Mar 24, 2014 | |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Mar 27, 2014 | |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Apr 2, 2014 | |
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | May 5, 2014 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | May 15, 2014 | |
| D-AK | Mark Begich | May 21, 2014 | |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Jun 23, 2014 | |
| R-MO | Roy Blunt | Jun 26, 2014 | |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Jul 7, 2014 | |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Jul 28, 2014 | |
| D-CT | Christopher Murphy | Jul 31, 2014 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Sep 8, 2014 | |
| D-DE | Christopher A. Coons | Nov 12, 2014 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 14, 2013Introduced in Senate
- May 14, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 942 | Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013 | Related bill | Mar 8, 2013 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disability and paralysis
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Government information and archives
- Health
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicare
- Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
- Neurological disorders
- Product safety and quality
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 14, 2013Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
