Competitive Bidding Relief Act
Sponsored By: Senator James Lankford
Introduced
Summary
Preserves the Medicare payment transition for durable medical equipment (DME). The bill would extend an existing DMEPOS transition rule in non-rural and noncontiguous areas through December 31, 2025, delay a planned regulatory step until January 1, 2026, and give the Secretary authority to implement these changes by program instruction or other administrative means.
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- Suppliers: DME suppliers in non-rural and noncontiguous areas would keep the transition payment treatment for applicable items through Dec. 31, 2025, preventing immediate payment changes tied to the competitive bidding rounds.
- Medicare beneficiaries: People who receive DME in those areas would have payment rates governed by the transition rule through 2025, rather than by the newer rule the bill delays.
- Administration: The Secretary of Health and Human Services would be allowed to carry out these adjustments via program instruction or other nonregulatory methods, rather than only through formal regulation.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Extend Medicare DME payment protections
If enacted, this bill would extend a Medicare durable medical equipment (DME) transition rule through December 31, 2025. It would stop HHS from putting a related new DME rule into effect before January 1, 2026. HHS could use program instructions to apply these changes. Medicare beneficiaries who get DME and DME suppliers would see current payment and bidding rules kept until those dates.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
James Lankford
OK • R
Cosponsors
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 9/30/2025
Katie Britt
AL • R
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Tommy Tuberville
AL • R
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Roll Call Votes
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