Ways and Means Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
This bill mandates the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue a clarification within 60 days of its enactment. The clarification must state that fully implanted active middle ear hearing devices are to be considered prosthetics . By classifying these devices as prosthetics, they would explicitly be excluded from the existing hearing aid coverage exclusion under the Medicare program. This action aims to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries can receive coverage for these specific types of advanced hearing devices, aligning their treatment with other prosthetic benefits. The bill specifies that "prosthetic" will be defined according to existing federal regulations.
Referred 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.
Referred 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.
This bill mandates the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue a clarification within 60 days of its enactment. The clarification must state that fully implanted active middle ear hearing devices are to be considered prosthetics . By classifying these devices as prosthetics, they would explicitly be excluded from the existing hearing aid coverage exclusion under the Medicare program. This action aims to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries can receive coverage for these specific types of advanced hearing devices, aligning their treatment with other prosthetic benefits. The bill specifies that "prosthetic" will be defined according to existing federal regulations.
Referred 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.
Referred 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.