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H.R. 4945 · 116th Congress

Safeguarding Medicare Access to Respiratory Therapy Act of 2019

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

HGR GriffithSponsor
59 cosponsors · 34 D, 25 R
GBR Bilirakis JLD Larson DSD Soto PWD Welch JCD Chu BFR Fitzpatrick MKR Kelly CMR McMorris Rodgers END Norton TRR Reed PTD Tonko THR Hollingsworth GTR Thompson BMD McCollum MPD Pocan LFD Fletcher TSD Suozzi SWD Wild LBR Bucshon DBR Bishop TCR Cole BGR Guthrie JKR Katko LBD Blunt Rochester ABD Brindisi CLD Lamb GND Napolitano GRR Reschenthaler ESR Stefanik BWR Westerman GKD Butterfield ASR Scott GGR Grothman CPD Pingree AKD Kuster JMD McGovern JBD Beatty GCD Cisneros AFD Finkenauer JMD Morelle SSR Stivers JCD Crow EED Engel RDR Davis ADD Delgado KHD Horn GGR Graves SMD Maloney AHD Hastings TLD Lieu MDD Dean JRR Rutherford JRD Raskin CAD Allred CHR Higgins RMR Marshall PRR Roe SKR King DPD Phillips

4 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Safeguarding Medicare Access to Respiratory Therapy Act of 2019

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Oct 31, 2019

Safeguarding Medicare Access to Respiratory Therapy Act of 2019

This bill establishes certain requirements relating to Medicare coverage of ventilators.

Specifically, the bill (1) excludes ventilators and other covered respiratory items, as specified, from Medicare's competitive acquisition program (in which rates are set through a competitive bidding program rather than by an established fee schedule); and (2) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a technical expert panel to review, and make recommendations regarding, national coverage determinations with respect to Medicare coverage of ventilators and other specified respiratory devices.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Safeguarding Medicare Access to Respiratory Therapy Act of 2019

Latest action (Nov 1, 2019): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Oct 31, 2019

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.