Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act has not moved since its introduction on Apr 24, 2025, with no cosponsors
IntroducedApr 24, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 47 words.
Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from refusing to designate a service as a covered hospital outpatient service under Medicare based solely on its determination that the service can only be furnished in an inpatient setting.
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
- 1 of 42 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 78 words
- Latest action
- Apr 24, 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 · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]