Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act of 2015 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Prohibition of inclusion of Social Security account numbers on Medicare cards. Sec. 3. Preventing wrongful Medicare payments for items and services furnished to incarcerated individuals, individuals not lawfully present, and deceased individuals. Sec. 4. Consideration of measures regarding Medicare beneficiary smart cards.
Sec. 5. Modifying medicare durable medical equipment face-to-face encounter documentation requirement. Sec. 6. Reducing improper Medicare payments. Sec. 7. Improving senior Medicare patrol and fraud reporting rewards. Sec. 8. Requiring valid prescriber National Provider Identifiers on pharmacy claims. Sec. 9. Option to receive Medicare Summary Notice electronically. Sec. 10. Renewal of MAC contracts. Sec. 11. Study on pathway for incentives to States for State participation in medicaid data match program.
Sec. 12. Programs to prevent prescription drug abuse under Medicare part D. Sec. 13. Guidance on application of Common Rule to clinical data registries. Sec. 14. Eliminating certain civil money penalties; gainsharing study and report. Sec. 15. Modification of Medicare home health surety bond condition of participation requirement. Sec. 16. Oversight of Medicare coverage of manual manipulation of the spine to correct subluxation. Sec. 17. National expansion of prior authorization model for repetitive scheduled non-emergent ambulance transport.
Sec. 18. Repealing duplicative Medicare secondary payor provision. Sec. 19. Plan for expanding data in annual CERT report. Sec. 20. Removing funds for Medicare Improvement Fund added by IMPACT Act of 2014. Sec. 21. Rule of construction.