Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2019
Latest action · Nov 1, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedOct 31, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2019
This bill establishes a series of requirements relating to coverage of ground ambulance services under Medicare.
Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must continue to designate an area as a rural or qualified rural area that is eligible for increased payment under Medicare, even if the area would otherwise no longer qualify for such designation, if the area has a specified population density. The CMS must also establish an administrative process to allow ambulance service providers to appeal a change in an area's designation.
The bill also requires the CMS to (1) expand to all states a prior authorization model for repetitive scheduled nonemergent ambulance transport, in accordance with specified limitations, if such an expansion has not already occurred by a certain date; (2) increase payment rates for ground ambulance services; and (3) eliminate certain administrative requirements for such services.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Oct 31, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Oct 31, 2019 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Oct 31, 2019 |
| R-OK | Markwayne Mullin | Original | Oct 31, 2019 |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Original | Oct 31, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 1, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Oct 31, 2019Introduced in House
- Oct 31, 2019Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Medicare
- Motor vehicles
- Rural conditions and development
- Transportation costs
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 31, 2019Introduced in House
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