Proposed
Bill · 119th Congress · HR 6214
Kidney Care Access Protection Act
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Introduced 2025-11-20Topic: health careSummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill changes how Medicare pays for kidney failure (end-stage renal disease) care. It requires Medicare to pay temporary add-on payments for new dialysis drugs and devices for at least 3 years, then set a permanent add-on payment for new dialysis drugs at 65 percent of a calculated amount, and it makes certain breakthrough and capital-related devices eligible for add-on payments. It requires direct add-on payments to dialysis providers for Medicare Advantage enrollees and adds a yearly correction to dialysis payment rates when price forecasts were off by more than 0.5 percentage points. It also adds chronic kidney disease screening to the Medicare annual wellness visit and expands the kidney disease education benefit to stage V patients and to dialysis facilities.
Sponsors
- Carol D. Miller Republican sponsor
- 18 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-20 | House | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 |
| 2025-11-20 | House | Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 |
| 2025-11-20 | Introduced in House | introduce | |
| 2025-11-20 | Introduced in House | introduce |