Competitive Bidding Relief Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Extends a Medicare transition rule that preserves higher durable medical equipment payment rates in non-competitive bidding areas through 2025 and delays a lower-rate rule until 2026.
Who Benefits and How
Durable medical equipment suppliers in non-competitive bidding areas would retain more favorable Medicare payment rates for an additional year, which may help sustain supplier participation and beneficiary access.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Medicare spending could stay higher for those items and services during the extension period, and HHS would need to delay implementation of the lower-rate provision.
Key Provisions
- Requires HHS to apply the existing transition payment rule in non-rural, noncontiguous non-competitive bidding areas through December 31, 2025.
- Bars implementation of the lower-rate successor provision until January 1, 2026.
- Allows implementation by program instruction or other administrative means.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Extends a Medicare transition rule that preserves higher durable medical equipment payment rates in non-competitive bidding areas through 2025 and delays a lower-rate rule until 2026.
Key Policy Areas
Health, Medicare
Primary Purpose
Extends a Medicare transition rule that preserves higher durable medical equipment payment rates in non-competitive bidding areas through 2025 and delays a lower-rate rule until 2026.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Durable medical equipment suppliers and beneficiaries in non-competitive bidding areas
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare spending and HHS administrators delaying the lower-rate rule
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Lankford (for himself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Durable medical equipment suppliers furnishing items in Medicare non-competitive bidding areas
Medicare spending associated with the delayed lower-rate rule
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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