HR 588
114th Congress
House
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2015
Introduced: January 28, 2015
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 30, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 28, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Jan 28, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2015
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to repeal the allowance for disenrollment, between January 1 and March 15 of each year, only from an MedicareAdvantage plan to elect enrollment in the original Medicare fee-for-service program.
Restores the option under previous law to elect to change from a MedicareAdvantage to the original Medicare fee-for-service plan, or from the original Medicare fee-for-service to a MedicareAdvantage plan, once a year during the first three months.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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