Skip to main content
HR 745 114th Congress House Health Congressional oversight Digestive and metabolic diseases Emergency medical services and trauma care Government studies and investigations Health care costs and insurance Health information and medical records Medicare Motor vehicles Transportation costs

Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2015

Introduced: February 4, 2015 See on congress.gov
Sign in to write a letter Sign in to watch
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 18, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 4, 2015
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.
Feb 4, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2015

Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the ambulance fee schedule to: (1) increase the conversion factor for ground ambulance services in the formula for determining the appropriate fee, and (2) increase the mileage rate for such services.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study how the conversion factor should be modified, if at all, to take into account the cost of providing ambulance services in urban, rural, and super-rural areas.

Directs the Secretary to establish a process to determine, in advance of furnishing end stage renal disease ambulance services, whether payment for them may not be made because they are not covered or because they are excluded from coverage. Prohibits any payment unless the Secretary determines, pursuant to this process, that the service meets coverage requirements.

Directs the Secretary to develop a data collection system for ambulance providers to collect cost, revenue, utilization, and other appropriate information.

What's happening now February 18, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 5 Republican 3