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H.R. 1190, Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015 1 (June 11, 2015)

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June 11, 2015
H.R. 1190
Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means
on June 2, 2015
SUMMARY
H.R. 1190 would repeal the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that established
the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) and that created a process by which the
Board (or the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services) would be
required under certain circumstances to modify the Medicare program to achieve specified
savings.
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1190 would not have any budgetary impact between
2015 and 2021, but would increase direct spending by $7.1 billion over the 2022-2025
period. That estimate is extremely uncertain because it is not clear whether the mechanism
for spending reductions under the IPAB authority will be triggered under current law for
most of the next ten years; under CBO's current baseline projections such authority is
projected to be triggered in 2025. However, given the uncertainty that surrounds those
projections, it is possible that such authority would be triggered in more than one of those
years; taking into account that possibility, CBO estimates that repealing the IPAB
provision of the ACA would probably result in higher spending for the Medicare program
in the years 2022 through 2025 than would occur under current law. CBO's estimate
represents the expected value of a broad range of possible effects of repealing the provision
over that period.
Pay-as-you-go procedures apply because enacting the legislation would affect direct
spending. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.
H.R. 1190 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).

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