Medicare beneficiaries cannot be billed twice for the same medical service.
H.R. 9532 — No Medicare Clawbacks Act of 2026 · Filed by Ritchie Torres (D-NY) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 29, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill stops group health plans from taking back money they paid for medical services. Medicare later covers those same services retroactively. A beneficiary must be current on their group plan payments. The bill treats clawbacks as a plan violation.
Who it affects
Working-age people with both a group health plan and Medicare Part A are affected. These people will no longer face surprise bills when Medicare covers a service retroactively.
One thing to notice
The bill only protects people current on their group plan payments. The bill does not say what penalties apply if a plan breaks this rule.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 29, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 29, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- clawback — When a company takes back money it already paid out.
- retroactive — Coverage that goes back to an earlier date, not just from today forward.
- group health plan — Health insurance offered by an employer to its workers.
- Medicare Part A — The part of Medicare that pays for hospital stays and some other care.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,430 characters) on Jul 6, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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