US SB4574 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1-1)
Status: Introduced on September 15 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-09-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on September 15 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-09-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a demonstration program for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Under the program, renal dialysis facilities, kidney disease specialists, physician practices, and other health care practitioners may form an organization that partners with certain health care entities to provide integrated care to beneficiaries with ESRD. Such care must include all covered Medicare benefits as well as transition services for transplantations, palliative care, and hospice. Each organization must have a minimum number or percentage of participating beneficiaries (350 or 60% of beneficiaries served at the organization's facilities) and must also comply with certain fiscal, governance, and quality of care requirements. Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study certain data that is reported to the CMS regarding pediatric dialysis care, as well as the effects of race-based corrections to a specified kidney function test on referrals of ESRD patients for transplant evaluations.
Title
Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients (BETTER) Kidney Care Act
Sponsors
Sen. Todd Young [R-IN] | Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ] | Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] | Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS] |
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND] | Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT] | Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2020-09-15 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
Same As/Similar To
HB8254 (Related) 2020-09-15 - 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.
Subjects
Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government studies and investigations
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Prescription drugs
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Child health
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government studies and investigations
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Prescription drugs
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
---|---|
Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4574/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4574/BILLS-116s4574is.pdf |