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Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2026

Introduced Feb 27, 2025

Latest action (Jul 21, 2026) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Referred to
Finance Committee Ways and Means Committee Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Health
Legislative subjects (5)
AgingDisability and paralysisHealth care costs and insuranceHealth technology, devices, suppliesMedicare

Summary
  • Requires Medicare to establish separate billing codes for ultralightweight manual wheelchairs based on construction material, distinguishing between those with titanium or carbon fiber bases and those without, effective January 1, 2028.
  • Sets Medicare payment amounts for ultralightweight manual wheelchairs with titanium or carbon fiber bases at the standard rates otherwise applicable to manual wheelchairs under Medicare part B.
  • Allows suppliers to charge beneficiaries the difference between their actual charge for the wheelchair and the Medicare payment amount.
  • Allows the Secretary to require suppliers to notify beneficiaries of their potential financial liability before purchase or rental of ultralightweight manual wheelchairs.

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)
10 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • NULL $43,900
  • JWF INDUSTRIES $13,570
  • SMITH TRANSPORT, INC $13,200
  • NESL $13,200
  • MARTIN'S FAMOUS PASTRY SHOPPE, INC $12,400

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

Actions (17)
  1. Jul 21, 2026 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
  2. Jul 20, 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. Jul 20, 2026 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4636-4637) · house
  4. Jul 20, 2026 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4636-4637)
  5. Jul 20, 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1703. · house
  6. Jul 20, 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4636-4637) · house
  7. Jul 20, 2026 Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
  8. Jul 18, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 656. · house
  9. Jul 18, 2026 Committee on Ways and Means discharged. · house
  10. Jul 18, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-753, Part I. · house
  11. May 21, 2026 Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 45 - 0. · house
  12. May 21, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  13. May 13, 2026 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote. · house
  14. May 13, 2026 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  15. Feb 27, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. · house
  16. Feb 27, 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
  17. Feb 27, 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 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated 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)
  • HR 3108 — RPM Access Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5343 — Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act (shares 3 subjects)

Text versions (4)
  • Referred in Senate · Jul 21, 2026
  • Engrossed in House · Jul 20, 2026
  • Reported in House · Jul 18, 2026
  • Introduced in House · Feb 27, 2025

Committee action

What happened to this bill in committee — the meetings where it was considered and every recorded vote taken on it.

Meetings where this bill was on the agenda

Full text

AN ACT

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify payment rules for manual wheelchairs under part B of the Medicare program.

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 “Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2026”.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL RULES RELATED TO TREATMENT OF CERTAIN MANUAL WHEELCHAIRS UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

Section 1834(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(24) Special rules related to treatment of certain manual wheelchairs.—

“(A) Requirement to establish separate hcpcs codes for certain manual wheelchairs.—With respect to ultralightweight manual wheelchairs payable under this subsection furnished on or after January 1, 2028, the Secretary shall establish two or more HCPCS codes, as determined appropriate by the Secretary, for the base of such a wheelchair depending on the construction material used in such base (with 1 or more such codes for such a base with titanium or carbon fiber construction material and 1 or more such codes for such a base without such materials).

“(B) Payment and beneficiary protections.—

“(i) Payment.—On or after January 1, 2028, in the case where an individual purchases or rents from a supplier an ultralightweight manual wheelchair that has titanium or carbon fiber construction material used in the base of such wheelchair, payment to the supplier shall be made in the frequency and amount as would otherwise be made under this subsection (as described in paragraph (1)(A)) for such wheelchair.

“(ii) Beneficiary charges.—The supplier may charge the individual the difference between the supplier’s actual charge for such wheelchair and the payment amount described in clause (i) for such wheelchair.

“(iii) Beneficiary protections.—In order to inform an individual of the individual’s potential financial liability under clause

(ii), the Secretary may require a supplier to issue a notice to the individual (in a form and manner determined by the Secretary) prior to the purchase or rental of such ultralightweight manual wheelchair by such individual.”.

Passed the House of Representatives July 20, 2026.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 1703

AN ACT

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify payment rules for manual wheelchairs under part B of the Medicare program.

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