3.0.0 2175 2023-01-11T13:39:21Z 2023-01-11T13:39:21Z Senate S 2017-11-30 115 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-11-30T17:17:55Z 2017-11-30 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2017-11-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA N M001183 Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] Joseph Manchin D WV 2017-11-30 True G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. 2017-11-30 True Health Health 00 2017-11-30 Introduced in Senate 2018-08-08T16:35:44Z Beneficiary Respiratory Equipment Access and Transparency to Home Ventilator Care Act of 2017 or the BREATH Act of 2017

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish by January 1, 2018, policies and standards for determining the appropriate use of certain ventilators under the Medicare program. The CMS may delay such establishment until January 1, 2020, for certain ventilators furnished to individuals with specified medical diagnoses.

Subject to budget neutrality requirements, the bill increases the Medicare payment rate for such ventilators for 2018 and subsequent years.

]]> BREATH Act of 2017 Display Title BREATH Act of 2017 Short Titles as Introduced BREATH Act of 2017 Short Titles as Introduced Beneficiary Respiratory Equipment Access and Transparency to Home Ventilator Care Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve Medicare beneficiary access to ventilators, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2175is/xml/BILLS-115s2175is.xml 2017-11-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.