PREVENT ESRD Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to hold a public listening session on kidney disease within 180 days. It also creates a 10-year voluntary Medicare demonstration program, starting by January 1, 2027, for health plans such as employer, individual, Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage plans. Participating plans must cover listed kidney care services, screen enrollees for kidney disease without cost-sharing, and report data to the government. Plans whose enrollees progress to later stages of kidney disease or kidney failure at rates below a set benchmark could receive 25 percent of the estimated Medicare savings. The bill transfers $5 million per year from Medicare trust funds to run the program and lets the Secretary waive certain Medicare and Medicaid rules.

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Sponsors

• Joe Wilson Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors