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H.R. 1703 · 119th Congress

Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2026

Introduced Feb 27, 2025Policy area: Health

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S5299)

Summary

Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2025

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish specific billing codes under Medicare for certain materials used in ultralightweight manual wheelchairs.

Specifically, the CMS must establish at least two billing codes for the base of the wheelchair, with at least one code for a base with titanium or carbon fiber construction material and at least one code for a base without these materials. Suppliers receive the same payment under Medicare for these wheelchairs as would otherwise apply, but may bill beneficiaries for any difference between the payment and the actual charge for the wheelchair. The CMS may require suppliers to inform beneficiaries of their potential financial liability in these cases.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S5299)

  2. Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.

  3. Senate

    Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.

  4. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  5. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  6. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4636-4637)

  7. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1703.

  8. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4636-4637)

  9. House

    Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  10. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 656.

  11. House

    Committee on Ways and Means discharged.

  12. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-753, Part I.

Show 7 earlier actions
  1. House

    Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 45 - 0.

  2. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  3. House

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  4. House

    Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  6. House

    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.

  7. Introduced in House