Purchased and Referred Care Improvement Act

(1) in subsection (a)—

(A) by striking A patient and inserting Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a patient;

(B) by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred care; and

(C) by inserting to any provider, third party debt collector, or any other person after shall not be liable;

(2) in subsection (b)—

(A) by striking contract care each place it appears and inserting purchased/referred care;

(B) by striking contract health care and inserting purchased/referred care;

(C) by inserting, notwithstanding any other provision of law, after by the Service that; and

(D) by inserting to any provider, third party debt collector, or any other person after is not liable;

(3) in subsection (c), by inserting, the third party debt collector, or any other person, as applicable after the provider; and

(4) by adding at the end the following:

Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Service shall establish and implement procedures to allow a patient that paid directly for purchased/referred care services authorized by the Service under this Act to be reimbursed by the purchased/referred care program for that payment not later than 30 days after the patient submits documentation to the Service pursuant to paragraph (2).

The Service shall accept documentation from a patient seeking reimbursement under paragraph (1) that was submitted—

(A) electronically; or

(B) in-person at a Indian health program.