Sec. 2. Changes to liability for payment
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Section 222 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ( 25 U.S.C. 1621u ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by striking A patient and inserting Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a patient ; by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred care ; and by inserting to any provider, third party debt collector, or any other person after shall not be liable ; in subsection (b)— by striking contract care each place it appears and inserting purchased/referred care ; by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred care ; by inserting , notwithstanding any other provision of law, after by the Service that ; and by inserting to any provider, third party debt collector, or any other person after is not liable ; in subsection (c), by inserting , the third party debt collector, or any other person, as applicable after the provider ; and by adding at the end the following:
Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Service shall establish and implement procedures to allow a patient that paid directly for purchased/referred care services authorized by the Service under this Act to be reimbursed by the purchased/referred care program for that payment not later than 30 days after the patient submits documentation to the Service pursuant to paragraph (2). The Service shall accept documentation from a patient seeking reimbursement under paragraph
(1)that was submitted— electronically; or in-person at a Indian health program. .
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