[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4869 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4869

     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

                             July 30, 2024

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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