Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

Affordable Care Act (ACA), ACA subsidies; Telehealth; Mental Health, Mental Health Rule, Youth Mental Health Access; Site Neutrality/Site neutral payment reform and Fair Hospital Billing; Transparency in coverage; Surprise Billing; Rural healthcare access; Prior Authorization; Provider Workforce Shortages; Telehealth payment parity requirements; Parity; Provider Directory Accuracy S.2556 - Improving CARE for Youth Act To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure Medicaid coverage of mental health services and primary care services furnished on the same day. Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] S.3430 - Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 2023 To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to expand the mental health care workforce and services, reduce prescription drug costs, and extend certain expiring provisions under Medicare and Medicaid, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] H.R.3226 - PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2023 To reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act. Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-16] H.R.3838 - Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023 To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize Federal support of States in their work to save and sustain the health of mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes for pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated deaths, to identify solutions to improve health care quality and health outcomes for mothers, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26] H.R.2708 - Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2023 To prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities who need long-term services and supports, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] H.R.6412 - Down Syndrome Diagnosis Act To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to provide certain informational resources related to Down syndrome. Sponsor: Rep. Molinaro, Marcus J. [R-NY-19] S.644 - Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act To expand the take-home prescribing of methadone through pharmacies. Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] S.1869 - SITE Act To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure fair billing practice for items and services furnished by off-campus hospital locations, to amend such title XVIII to provide for payments for graduate nursing education costs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] H.R.3417 - FAIR Act To ensure fair billing practices for items and services furnished by off-campus outpatient departments of a provider. Sponsor: Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1] H.R. 5378 Lower Costs, More Transparency Act To promote price transparency in the health care sector, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5] H.R.4531 - Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2] S.652 - Safe Step Act To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] H.R.7702/S.754 - Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2] - To provide health insurance benefits for outpatient and inpatient items and services related to the diagnosis and treatment of a craniofacial, oral, or maxillofacial congenital anomaly or birth defect. Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] S. 1001 Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the exemption for telehealth services from certain high deductible health plan rules. Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] H.R. 485 - Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023 To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to prohibit the use of quality-adjusted life years and similar measures in coverage and payment determinations under Federal health care programs. Sponsor: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-05) H.R.3630 - No Surprises Act To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to protect health care consumers from surprise billing practices, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]