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Bill · 119th Congress · S 2847

Occupational Therapy Mental Health Parity Act

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Introduced 2025-09-17Topic: health care · public health

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This bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide education and outreach to stakeholders within one year after the bill becomes law. The education would cover the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual as it applies to occupational therapy services for Medicare patients. It focuses on occupational therapy used to treat a substance use or mental health disorder diagnosis, billed using applicable Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-09-17SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.refer
2025-09-17Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.