Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act 2025-04-24 Introduced in House Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act

This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from refusing to designate a service as a covered hospital outpatient service under Medicare based solely on its determination that the service can only be furnished in an inpatient setting.

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