Improving Medicare Patients with RNHCI Options to Vaccinate Easily Act

Improving Medicare Patients with RNHCI Options to Vaccinate Easily Act or the IMPROVE Act

This bill specifies that individuals who elect to receive services in religious nonmedical health care institutions (RNHCIs) may receive COVID-19 vaccines under Medicare.

Specifically, an individual's receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine does not revoke the individual's election to receive services in RNHCIs under Medicare; an individual who's election was revoked due to the receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine prior to the bill's date of enactment may immediately reelect to receive services in RNHCIs under Medicare.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4899 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4899

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to Remedy election 
      revocations relating to administration of COVID-19 vaccines.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 2022

Mr. Portman (for himself and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to Remedy election 
      revocations relating to administration of COVID-19 vaccines.

    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 ``Improving Medicare Patients with 
RNHCI Options to Vaccinate Easily Act'' or the ``IMPROVE Act''.

SEC. 2. REMEDYING ELECTION REVOCATIONS RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION OF 
              COVID-19 VACCINES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1821(b)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395i-5(b)(5)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' or at the end;
            (2) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``, or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iii) effective beginning on the date of 
                        the enactment of this clause, that is a COVID-
                        19 vaccine and its administration described in 
                        section 1861(s)(10)(A).''.
    (b) Special Rules for COVID-19 Vaccines Relating to Revocation of 
Election.--Notwithstanding paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 1821(b) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i-5(b)), in the case of an 
individual with a revocation of an election under such section prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act by reason of receiving a COVID-19 
vaccine and its administration described in section 1861(s)(10)(A) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(s)(10)(A)), the following rules shall apply:
            (1) Beginning on such date of enactment, such individual 
        may make an election under such section, which shall take 
        effect immediately upon its execution, if such individual would 
        be eligible to make such an election if they had not received 
        such COVID-19 vaccine and its administration.
            (2) Such revoked election shall not be taken into account 
        for purposes of determining the effective date for an election 
        described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of such paragraph (4).
    (c) Medicare Improvement Fund.--Section 1898(b)(1) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395iii(b)(1)) is amended by striking 
``$7,500,000,000'' and inserting ``$7,493,000,000''.
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