A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require medicare administrative contractors, unified program integrity contractors, and qualified independent contractors to pay the legal fees for certain durable medical equipment suppliers that were incorrectly denied payment.

Bill Cassidy

Republican · LA · Senator

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

2026-07-22

Source: Congress.gov

This bill would require Medicare contractors to pay the legal fees for durable medical equipment suppliers (companies that provide things like wheelchairs and oxygen tanks) when those suppliers were wrongly denied payment and had to fight in court to get their money back. The goal is to compensate suppliers for the costs they incurred defending themselves against incorrect payment denials by Medicare's contractors. This would primarily affect small medical equipment companies that were unfairly denied reimbursement and had to hire lawyers to resolve the dispute.

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