S 1935 ยท Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Introduced
- Jun 3, 2025
- Latest action
- Jun 3, 2025
- Sponsor
- Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
- Policy area
- Health
- Cosponsors
- 4
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.
Recent actions
- Jun 3, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Jun 3, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.