Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act has not moved since its introduction on May 19, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedMay 19, 2025
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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
- Senate Finance Committee
- Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 10 of 252 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 86 words
- Subjects
- Digestive and metabolic diseasesHealth information and medical recordsHealth personnelHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedicare
- Latest action
- May 19, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2973-2974)
- 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 H.R. 1616 Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]