Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act

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Introduced 2025-01-31Topic: health care · public health

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Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act This bill allows, beginning in 2028, for Medicare coverage and payment for multi-cancer early detection screening tests that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration and that are used to screen for cancer across many cancer types, if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services determines such coverage is appropriate. Coverage is limited to those under a certain age (age 68 in 2028, increased by one year every year thereafter) and to one test every 11 months.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-10-03	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-333, Part I.	report
2025-10-03		Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-333, Part I.	report
2025-09-17	House	Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 0.	refer
2025-09-17	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held	refer
2025-01-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-01-31	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-01-31		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-01-31		Introduced in House	introduce

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