Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7254 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7254

To direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to 
  clarify that fully implanted active middle ear hearing devices are 
 prosthetics and are not subject to the hearing aid coverage exclusion 
                      under the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2024

 Mrs. Fischbach (for herself, Ms. Craig, Mr. Emmer, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
Finstad, Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Stauber) 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 direct the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to 
  clarify that fully implanted active middle ear hearing devices are 
 prosthetics and are not subject to the hearing aid coverage exclusion 
                      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 ``Hearing Device Coverage 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. ACTIVE MIDDLE EAR IMPLANT COVERAGE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services shall clarify that fully implanted active middle ear hearing 
devices are prosthetics that are not subject to the hearing aid 
coverage exclusion under section 1862(a)(7) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395y(a)(7)).
    (b) Prosthetic Defined.--The term ``prosthetic'' has the meaning 
given such term in section 414.202 of title 42, Code of Federal 
Regulations.
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