Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act

Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act

This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from refusing to designate a service as a covered hospital outpatient service under Medicare based solely on its determination that the service can only be furnished in an inpatient setting.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3021 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3021

             To eliminate the inpatient-only service list.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 2025

 Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
             To eliminate the inpatient-only service list.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Empowering Patient Choice of Medical 
Care Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF INPATIENT-ONLY SERVICE LIST.

    Beginning January 1, 2026, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services may not refuse to designate an outpatient hospital service 
pursuant to section 1833(t)(1)(B)(i) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395l(t)(1)(B)(i)) based solely on a determination by the 
Secretary that such service may only be safely furnished in an 
inpatient setting.
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