Official Summaries

Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025

This bill extends the specialized rate increase for Medicare payment of ground ambulance services in rural areas for an additional three years (until January 1, 2028).

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2232 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2232

  To amend title XVIII to protect patient access to ground ambulance 
             services under part B of the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

 Ms. Tenney (for herself, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Bentz, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Carey, 
  Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, and Ms. Perez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII to protect patient access to ground ambulance 
             services under part B of 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 ``Protecting Access to Ground 
Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTING PATIENT ACCESS TO GROUND AMBULANCE SERVICES.

    Section 1834(l) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(l)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (12)(A), by striking ``2025'' and 
        inserting ``2028''; and
            (2) in paragraph (13)(A), by striking ``2025'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``2028'' in each such place.
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