HEAR Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Expands Medicare to cover hearing rehabilitation services, including certain hearing aids and related audiology services.
Who Benefits and How
Medicare beneficiaries with hearing loss may gain coverage for hearing aids, fitting, rehabilitation, and related assessments.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal payers and Medicare administrators would face higher program costs and must implement a new hearing rehabilitation benefit.
Key Provisions
- Adds aural rehabilitation services to Medicare-covered services.
- Adds certain hearing aids and related fitting and counseling services to Medicare coverage.
- Defines hearing rehabilitation, sets replacement limits, and phases in the benefit on a timeline set by HHS.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Expands Medicare to cover hearing rehabilitation services, including certain hearing aids and related audiology services.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Social Welfare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Expands Medicare to cover hearing rehabilitation services, including certain hearing aids and related audiology services.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare beneficiaries with hearing loss
- Audiologists and other clinicians furnishing hearing rehabilitation
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal payers and Medicare administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Mullin (for himself, Mr. Lawler, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Takano, …
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Audiologists and other clinicians furnishing hearing rehabilitation
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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