Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act has not moved since its introduction on Feb 26, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
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Passed one chamber—
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 41 words.
Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act This bill allows a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to fulfill documentation requirements for coverage, under Medicare, of special shoes for diabetic individuals. Under current law, such requirements may be satisfied only by a physician.
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 5 of 113 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 86 words
- Subjects
- Digestive and metabolic diseasesHealth information and medical recordsHealth personnelHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedicare
- Latest action
- Feb 26, 2025: 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 1805 Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]