Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve coverage of audiology services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2025
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of certain audiology services. Specifically, the bill expands coverage to include diagnostic and treatment services that are furnished by audiologists and that would otherwise be covered if provided by a physician, including incidental services, regardless of whether such services are provided pursuant to a referral from, or under the supervision of, a physician or other health care practitioner.
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- AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Education, Dept of
- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1996: Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1996/
"S. 1996: Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1996/.
S. 1996, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1996/.
[S. 1996: Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1996/)