Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care under the Medicare program.
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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.
Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care. Coverage includes (1) routine dental cleanings and exams, basic and major dental services, emergency dental care, and dentures; (2) routine eye exams, eyeglasses, and contact lenses; and (3) routine hearing exams, hearing aids, and exams for hearing aids. With respect to such care, the bill establishes special payment rules, limitations, and coinsurance requirements.
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- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- DELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
- TREA SENIOR CITIZENS LEAGUE
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- White House Office
- Administration on Aging
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2045: Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2045/
"H.R. 2045: Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2045/.
H.R. 2045, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2045/.
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