[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4932 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4932

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure appropriate 
      global surgical package code values in the Medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 1, 2020

   Mr. Paul 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 ensure appropriate 
      global surgical package code values in 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 ``Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING APPROPRIATE GLOBAL SURGICAL PACKAGE CODE VALUES IN 
              MEDICARE.

    Section 1848(c)(8) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-
4(c)(8)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(D) Ensuring appropriate global surgical package 
                code values.--For services furnished on or after 
                January 1, 2021, the Secretary shall ensure that the 
                valuation of evaluation and management (E/M) post-
                operative visits is equal to the valuation of 
                evaluation and management (E/M) services identified as 
                of January 1, 2021, by HCPCS codes 99211-99215, 99217, 
                99224-99226, 99231-99233, 99238-99239, 99291-99292, and 
                99354-99357 (or any successor codes).''.
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