119th Congress Health
S. 1935: Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act
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Summary
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Tammy Baldwin D-WIOriginal
- John Barrasso R-WYOriginal
- Deb Fischer R-NEOriginal
- Amy Klobuchar D-MN
Who scored on this bill
- 1Jacky Rosen SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Jacky Rosen.
Show the full action history (2 actions)
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.


