Rep. Rob Bresnahan, Jr. (PA-08) has announced his support for 50 healthcare bills aimed at addressing the needs of families in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Over the past 11 months, Bresnahan has met with hundreds of local stakeholders, including patients, parents, and healthcare professionals, to better understand the region’s challenges.
“Over my first 11 months in Congress, families across NEPA have shared their struggles and their hopes for better access to care, lower costs, and stronger treatments and research. I promised them I would never stop fighting to improve the health and wellbeing of our communities, especially our most vulnerable,” said Rep. Bresnahan. “These bills are about keeping that promise. It ensures NEPA families can count on affordable, dependable care close to home. I look forward to continuing this work and doing even more in my second year.”
The legislation supported by Bresnahan covers a range of issues such as early detection cancer screenings, transparency in pharmacy benefit management, expanded benefits for servicemembers and veterans, research into rare diseases and cancers, increased insurance coverage for children and working families, improved Medicare resources for seniors, among others.
Among these bills is H.R. 5145—the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act—which would extend enhanced premium tax credits created by the Affordable Care Act as lawmakers seek a long-term solution.
Other notable legislation includes measures to allow use of health savings accounts for parental medical expenses (H.R.138), expand Medicare coverage for chiropractic services (H.R.539), permit telehealth delivery of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation programs (H.R.783), ensure timely Medicare coverage for multi-cancer early detection tests (H.R.842), increase reimbursement rates under Medicare (H.R.879), boost research incentives for rare diseases (H.R.946), create tax-advantaged accounts for healthcare savings (H.R.955), support rural physician workforce training (H.R.1153), incorporate fall risk assessments into senior wellness visits (H.R.1171), expand access to non-opioid pain alternatives (H.R.1227), accelerate pediatric cancer treatments (H.R.1262), broaden lung cancer screening under Medicare (H.R.1406), facilitate temporary Medicaid provider approvals across states (H.R.1509), ease documentation requirements for diabetic shoes under Medicare (H.R.1616), improve wheelchair access through upgraded materials covered by Medicare (H.R.1703), reimburse hospitals training nursing students outside hospital settings (H.R.1708) and enhance home health accessibility through occupational therapy services orders under Medicare (H.R2013).
Additional bills focus on eliminating waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer patients seeking SSDI or Medicare coverage; restoring protections for dialysis patients; reauthorizing national breast and cervical cancer screening programs; increasing federal investment in brain aneurysm research; providing refundable tax credits to living kidney donors; increasing funding to defeat brain tumors; eliminating out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic breast cancer tests; creating supplemental insurance options against out-of-pocket cancer expenses in military families; expanding pharmacist-administered testing under Medicare; ensuring dental treatment access for children with congenital anomalies; prohibiting discrimination against living kidney donors by life insurers; streamlining electronic prior authorization processes within MA plans; requiring prescription drug list prices in direct-to-consumer ads; broadening mental health provider participation in Medicare programs serving seniors; significantly raising funding levels dedicated toward cancer research amidst national drug shortages.
Further proposed laws address veteran PTSD diagnosis using RNA sequencing studies; outreach regarding occupational therapy’s role treating substance use or mental health disorders via Medicare coverage expansion efforts; requiring parity between oral anticancer drugs’ cost-sharing terms versus those administered directly by providers under group health plans/insurance policies alike—plus technical fixes granting fair judicial review opportunities tied back toward Camp Lejeune Justice Act claims from affected veterans.
Telehealth service expansion through permanent policy changes also features among the priorities listed alongside reforms designed specifically around pharmacy benefit manager industry accountability/transparency goals—with further protection offered up regarding disability/long-term care/life insurance discrimination bans linked directly back toward organ donor status concerns prevalent today amongst American consumers/workers nationally as well as FMLA leave inclusion provisions supporting recovery following donation surgeries when needed most urgently after-the-fact events occur unexpectedly during everyday life circumstances encountered frequently within our society currently moving forward together collectively here domestically inside U.S borders now ongoing still presently everywhere observed routinely nowadays seen regularly again too repetitively happening often repeatedly yet always happening over-and-over continually all-the-time everywhere anyway already noticed before 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