Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect patient access to ground ambulance services under the Medicare program.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025
This bill extends a specialized rate increase for Medicare payment of ground ambulance services in rural areas until January 1, 2028, and provides for a higher rate increase for services furnished between October 1, 2025, and January 1, 2028.
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- LESTER HEALTH LAW PLLC
- WHITMER & WORRALL, LLC
- GLOBAL MEDICAL RESPONSE, INC.
- NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL
- BARNES & THORNBURG, LLP
- ALSTON & BIRD LLP
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Bureau of Justice Assistance
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1643: Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1643/
"S. 1643: Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1643/.
S. 1643, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1643/.
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