Restoring Essential Healthcare Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2524 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2524

To amend Public Law 119-21 to repeal the prohibition on making payments 
            under the Medicaid program to certain entities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2025

 Ms. Smith (for herself, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. 
  Durbin, Mr. Reed, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Van 
    Hollen, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Coons, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
 Whitehouse, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Merkley, Mr. King, Mr. Booker, Ms. Hirono, 
 Mr. Padilla, Mr. Welch, Mr. Hickenlooper, Ms. Slotkin, Mr. Fetterman, 
 Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Markey, and Mr. Murphy) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend Public Law 119-21 to repeal the prohibition on making payments 
            under the Medicaid program to certain entities.

    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 ``Restoring Essential Healthcare 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEALING PROHIBITION ON MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CERTAIN ENTITIES.

    Section 71113 of Public Law 119-21 is repealed, and, in the case of 
any items or services furnished as medical assistance under a State 
plan (or a waiver of such plan) under title XIX of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) by a prohibited entity (as defined in 
subsection (b)(1) of such section 71113) during the period beginning on 
the date of enactment of Public Law 119-21 and ending on the date of 
enactment of this section, payment for such items and services shall be 
made as if such section 71113 had not been enacted into law.
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