Medicare: Coverage for Fall Prevention Items
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This bill is in the very early stages and has not yet gained the broad support needed to pass through several different committees.
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Medicare would add coverage for home safety items like grab bars, non-slip mats, shower chairs and bed rails when a doctor orders them for a beneficiary. This creates a new covered benefit category but only applies to beneficiaries who need and are prescribed these specific items, not all 67 million Medicare enrollees.
“The term `fall prevention items' includes grab bars, non-slip mats, shower chairs, bed rails, and such other items or categories of items as the Secretary may specify.”
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
No votes recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Stand Strong for Medicare Act of 2025
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