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S. 983 119th Congress Senate

Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act

Official title: A bill to direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to clarify that implanted active middle ear hearing devices are prosthetics … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to clarify that implanted active middle ear hearing devices are prosthetics and are not subject to the hearing aid coverage exclusion under the Medicare program.

Introduced: March 12, 2025 Introduced by: Amy Klobuchar Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Mar 12, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 12, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to specify that implanted active middle ear hearing devices are prosthetics (not hearing aids) and are covered under Medicare.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1921 Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Lobbying activity 2

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

  • SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP
    for ENVOY MEDICAL CORPORATION · Minnesota · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
  • SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP
    for ENVOY MEDICAL CORPORATION · Minnesota · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)

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 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Lankford, James
Oklahoma · Mar 12, 2025
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 983: Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-983/
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"S. 983: Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-983/.
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S. 983, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-983/.
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[S. 983: Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-983/)
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