US Congress House Bill 1516 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 19 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2015 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover, as medical and other health services, complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) items designed or individually configured for a specific qualified individual to meet that individual's unique: (1) medical, physical, or functional needs related to a medical condition; and (2) capacities for basic activities of daily living (ADLs) or instrumental ADLs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) designate CRT 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 formal process to allow submission of CRT code set modification requests by stakeholder groups for comprehensive coding changes related to entire policy groups. 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, if a qualified ordering practitioner determines that a replacement item (or part) is necessary.

Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2015

Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]
Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]
Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]	Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]
Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]
Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. French Hill [R-AR]	Rep. Robert Dold [R-IL]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]
Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]
Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Kristi Noem [R-SD]	Rep. John Katko [R-NY]
Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Mike Bost [R-IL]	Rep. Bob Gibbs [R-OH]
Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]	Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Scott Rigell [R-VA]	Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]
Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]	Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]
Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]
Rep. Keith Rothfus [R-PA]	Rep. Rob Woodall [R-GA]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]
Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]
Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. James Renacci [R-OH]
Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Gwen Graham [D-FL]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]
Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]
Rep. Tom Price [R-GA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Bill Shuster [R-PA]
Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]
Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]
Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-03-19	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-03-19	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-03-19	House	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.
2015-03-19	House	Introduced in House

SB1013 (Same As) 2015-04-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1516/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1516/BILLS-114hr1516ih.pdf