HR-1703 — Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2025

YourVoice.Now Summary

Your MoneyTransparency & Accountability

Starting in 2028, Medicare users could pay extra for titanium or carbon-fiber wheelchair frames — Medicare's share stays the same.

Your Money

Your cost for titanium or carbon-fiber wheelchairs — from 2028

Medicare would pay the same amount no matter what the wheelchair frame is made of. Starting January 1, 2028, a supplier could bill you the difference between its price and Medicare's payment.

Transparency & Accountability

Advance notice of your extra wheelchair costs — if Medicare requires it

Medicare could require the supplier to give you a written notice before you buy or rent. It would spell out what you might owe.

More about this bill

If you use Medicare and need an ultralightweight manual wheelchair, your cost could change in 2028. Medicare would set up separate billing codes for chair frames built from titanium or carbon fiber. Medicare's payment would stay the same as it is for other frames. The supplier could then charge you the difference between its price and what Medicare pays. Medicare could also require suppliers to warn you about that extra cost before you buy or rent. Wheelchair users on Medicare would feel this first, starting January 1, 2028.

Congressional Summary

Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2025This 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.

Legislative Subjects

AgingDisability and paralysisHealth care costs and insuranceHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedicare

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 45 - 0.
Action Date: 2026-05-21
Date Added: 2026-07-18
Source: Congress.gov →

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