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HR 588 114th Congress House

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2015

Official title: To preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by restoring and expanding the Medicare open enrollment and disenrollment opportunities repealed by section 3204(a) of … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by restoring and expanding the Medicare open enrollment and disenrollment opportunities repealed by section 3204(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Introduced: May 14, 2015 See on congress.gov
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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
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 Latest action January 30, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 1 Republican 4
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Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"
Arkansas · May 14, 2015
 D
Bera, Ami
California · Apr 21, 2015
Curbelo, Carlos
· Apr 15, 2015
 R
Kelly, Mike
Pennsylvania · Apr 13, 2015
 R
Buchanan, Vern
Florida · Mar 24, 2015
 R
Diaz-Balart, Mario
Florida · Mar 24, 2015
Murphy, Tim
· Feb 3, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 588: Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-588/
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"H.R. 588: Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-588/.
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H.R. 588, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-588/.
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