Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025

Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025

This bill extends a specialized rate increase for Medicare payment of ground ambulance services in rural areas until January 1, 2028, and provides for a higher rate increase for services furnished between October 1, 2025, and January 1, 2028.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1643 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1643

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect patient 
    access to ground ambulance services under the Medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 7, 2025

  Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Welch, 
Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Merkley) introduced the following bill; which was 
          read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect patient 
    access to ground ambulance services 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 ``Protecting Access to Ground 
Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTING PATIENT ACCESS TO MEDICARE GROUND AMBULANCE 
              SERVICES.

    (a) Super Rural Ambulance.--Section 1834(l)(12)(A) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(l)(12)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``October 1, 2025'' 
        and inserting ``January 1, 2028''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``In 
        the case of services furnished on or after October 1, 2025, and 
        before January 1, 2028, such percent increase shall be 26.7 
        percent.''.
    (b) Ground Ambulance.--Section 1834(l)(13)(A) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(l)(13)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
        ``October 1, 2025'' and inserting ``January 1, 2028'';
            (2) in clause (i), by inserting ``, or 4.3 percent if such 
        service is furnished on or after October 1, 2025, and before 
        January 1, 2028'' after ``2025''; and
            (3) in clause (ii), by inserting ``, or 3.4 percent if such 
        service is furnished on or after October 1, 2025, and before 
        January 1, 2028'' after ``2025''.
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