Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act
This bill amends Medicare rules to allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify diabetic shoe coverage for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, expanding the current requirement that only physicians could provide this documentation. It directly affects Medicare patients needing specialized footwear due to diabetes and healthcare providers like NPs and PAs who would now be authorized to meet the certification requirement. The key change modifies Section 1861(s)(12) of the Social Security Act to insert "nurse practitioner, or physician assistant" in all relevant sections of the documentation rules. This update simplifies access to covered diabetic shoes by broadening which healthcare professionals can issue the necessary certification.
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Introduced Feb 26, 2025
Last action Feb 26, 2025
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Feb 26, 2025
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Feb 26, 2025
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1 primary · 60 co-sponsors
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Darin LaHood
RRepublican
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Adrian Smith
RRepublican
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Alma S. Adams
DDemocratic
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Becca Balint
DDemocratic
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Bennie G. Thompson
DDemocratic
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Bill Foster
DDemocratic
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Bradley Scott Schneider
DDemocratic
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Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
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Carol D. Miller
RRepublican
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Chellie Pingree
DDemocratic
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Chris Pappas
DDemocratic
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