Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1055 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1055

     To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the
  notification requirement for emergency contract health services for
             certain beneficiaries, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

Mr. Rounds (for himself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL

     To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the
  notification requirement for emergency contract health services for
             certain beneficiaries, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Indian Health Service Emergency
Claims Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES.

    Section 406 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C.
1646) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``With respect to'' and inserting the
        following:
    ``(b) Elderly or Disabled Indians.--With respect to''; and
            (2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so designated)
        the following:
    ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), with
respect to an Indian receiving emergency medical care or services from
a non-Service provider or in a non-Service facility under the authority
of this Act, the time limitation (as a condition of payment) for
notifying the Service of such treatment or admission shall be 15
days.''.
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