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Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit nurse practitioners and physician assistants to satisfy the documentation requirement under the Medicare program for coverage of certain shoes for individuals with diabetes.

Introduced Feb 26, 2025

Latest action (Feb 26, 2025) Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Health
Legislative subjects (5)
Digestive and metabolic diseasesHealth information and medical recordsHealth personnelHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedicare

Summary

- Permits nurse practitioners and physician assistants to satisfy Medicare documentation requirements for coverage of therapeutic shoes for individuals with diabetes, in addition to physicians.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
59 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Darin Lahood’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • SPRINGFIELD ARMORY $25,000
  • NULL $24,450
  • MARQUIS MANAGEMENT, INC. $23,100
  • BGR GROUP $14,700
  • ULINE $13,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Darin Lahood → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 26, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
  2. Feb 26, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 3358 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 1968 — Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 1654 — CUTS Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 191 — Inflation Reduction Act of 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • S 2289 — Healthy Moms and Babies Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 3 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1805 — Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act · Introduced May 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 89%
  • HR 7905 — Diabetes Foot Health Access and Modernization Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 12, 2026 · Cong. 119 71%
  • S 4070 — Diabetes Foot Health Access and Modernization Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 12, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 4475 — Medicare Orthotics and Prosthetics Patient-Centered Care Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 1922 — Ensuring Access to Essential Drugs Act · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 1317 — I CAN Act · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 26, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 26, 2025

Mr. LaHood (for himself and Ms. Barragan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit nurse practitioners and physician assistants to satisfy the documentation requirement under the Medicare program for coverage of certain shoes for individuals with diabetes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Promoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act”.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS TO SATISFY MEDICARE DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENT FOR COVERAGE OF CERTAIN SHOES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DIABETES.

Section 1861(s)(12) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(s)(12)) is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting “, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant” after “physician”; and

(2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting “, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant” after each occurrence of “physician”. <all>

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