Improving Access to Advance Care Planning Act

This bill would add a definition of advance care planning services to Medicare law. These are conversations with a doctor, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, clinical nurse specialist, certain clinical social workers, or other approved practitioners about a patient's health care wishes, future decisions, and advance directive forms. Starting January 1, 2027, Medicare Part B would pay 100 percent for these services, with no deductible or coinsurance for patients. The bill would also allow these services by telehealth regardless of where the patient lives and would not require an annual wellness visit as a condition of payment. It would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct outreach to providers and require a Medicare advisory commission to study these services and report by June 30, 2027.

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Sponsors

• Mark R. Warner Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors