Expand Healthcare Coverage Act

=AN ACT To expand healthcare coverage.=

January 10, 2020

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Expand Healthcare Coverage Act.”

SEC. 2. DENTAL CARE. Medicare and the Medicare Hospital System shall insure, cover, and administer comprehensive dental care including— regular examinations; oral hygiene; dentistry; and oral surgery.

SEC. 3. VISION CARE. Medicare and the Medicare Hospital System shall insure, cover, and administer comprehensive vision care including— eyes examinations including— visual acuity examination; refraction examination; ocular tonometry; slit lamp examination; retina examination; specialized tests including— optical coherence tomography; ultrasonography; ophthalmic surgery; subspecialities of ophthalmology including— anterior segment surgery; treatments for cornea, ocular surface, and external disease; treatments for glaucoma non-surgical medical retina treatments; vitreo-retinal surgery; refractive surgery; and oculoplastics and orbit surgery.

SEC. 4. MENTAL HEALTH. Medicare and the Medicare Hospital System shall insure, cover, and administer comprehensive vision care including— pharmacotherapy; treatments including physical activity; activity therapies; expressive therapies; psychotherapy; and counselling.