S 1935
Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act
Summary
Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act This bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a model that provides community-based palliative care and care coordination for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries and that may replace the Medicare Care Choices Model (which ended on December 31, 2021). Under the new model, multi-disciplinary teams must provide coordinated, palliative care that is available 24-7 for Medicare beneficiaries with serious illnesses or injuries, such as cancer. The CMMI must evaluate the model by comparing patients participating in the model with those outside of the model in relation to specified metrics, including the election and duration of hospice care.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
- Cosponsors
- 4
- Policy area
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-06-03
- Latest action
- 2025-06-03: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-06-03: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2025-06-03: Introduced in Senate