Colorectal Cancer Payment Fairness Act

Colorectal Cancer Payment Fairness Act

This bill eliminates Medicare coinsurance requirements with respect to colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of the code billed for a resulting diagnosis or procedure, beginning in 2023 (rather than 2030).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2594 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2594

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 
 coinsurance requirement for certain colorectal cancer screening tests 
                 furnished under the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2021

Mr. Payne (for himself, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. McEachin, Mr. 
 Fitzpatrick, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Casten, Mr. 
   Malinowski, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Rush, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. 
Strickland, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Carbajal, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. 
  Lawson of Florida, Mrs. Axne, Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio, Ms. Williams of 
  Georgia, Mr. Raskin, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Guest, Mr. Van 
      Drew, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Ms. Clark of 
  Massachusetts, Ms. Porter, Mr. Sires, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. 
McBath, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Ruppersberger, Ms. Lee 
  of California, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Trone, Mr. Gallego, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Mr. Takano, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Evans, Mr. 
   Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
    Plaskett, Mr. Carson, Mr. Kilmer, and Mr. Soto) introduced the 
   following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 
 coinsurance requirement for certain colorectal cancer screening tests 
                 furnished under the Medicare program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Colorectal Cancer Payment Fairness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING THE COINSURANCE REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN COLORECTAL 
              CANCER SCREENING TESTS FURNISHED UNDER THE MEDICARE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1833(dd) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(dd)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and before January 1, 
        2030,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by adding ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``through 
                2026, 85 percent; and'' and inserting ``and each 
                subsequent year, 100 percent.''; and
                    (C) by striking subparagraph (C).
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