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Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish notification requirements for emergency medical care provided to Native Americans outside of Indian Health Service facilities. The bill requires that Native Americans or their providers notify the Indian Health Service within 15 days when emergency medical care or services are received from non-Service providers or facilities. This 15-day notification is presented as a condition for the Indian Health Service to pay for the emergency treatment. The bill restructures existing law to separate the general notification requirement from provisions that specifically address elderly or disabled Indians. The changes apply to emergency contract health services under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] (R-SD)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Mike Rounds’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $30,350
- NULL $26,450
- APOLLO $19,250
- ROCKET MORTGAGE $15,700
- APOLLO MGMT. $13,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mike Rounds → · Outside spending →
Actions (4)
- Aug 5, 2026 Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. · senate
- Feb 4, 2026 Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. · senate
- Mar 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. · senate
- Mar 13, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Committee action
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Meetings where this bill was on the agenda
- Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S.1055, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, S.1514, to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation, S.3219, to transfer certain Federal land into trust for certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico, and H.R.2400, to take certain Federal land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pit River Tribe.
- Hearings to examine S.2098, to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Southcentral Foundation located in Anchorage, Alaska, S.1055, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, and S.699, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to address liability for payment of charges or costs associated with the provision of purchased/referred care services.
Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 13, 2025
Mr. Rounds (for himself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs
A BILL
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to modify the notification requirement for emergency contract health services for certain beneficiaries, and for other purposes.
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 “Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act”.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES.
Section 406 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1646) is amended—
(1) by striking “With respect to” and inserting the following:
“(b) Elderly or Disabled Indians.—With respect to”; and
(2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so designated) the following:
“(a) In General.—Except as provided in subsection (b), with respect to an Indian receiving emergency medical care or services from a non-Service provider or in a non-Service facility under the authority of this Act, the time limitation (as a condition of payment) for notifying the Service of such treatment or admission shall be 15 days.”. <all>
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