Medicare Transaction Fraud Prevention Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7147.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 17, January 30, 2024, Page H317):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to establish a pilot program for testing the use of a predictive risk- scoring algorithm to provide oversight of payments for durable medical equipment and clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under the Medicare program.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  329 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7147, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7147

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  285ec98abf02087e0eac4733713c3d426b9299f4c86f0451c1d74efb49fa7212

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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