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The bill streamlines enrollment, outreach, accessibility, and customer service to improve access for Medicaid/Medicare and low-income beneficiaries and reduce caregiver paperwork, but it will raise administrative costs, create implementation burdens and transition disruptions for states, and poses privacy and equity risks if not carefully managed.
Medicaid, Medicare, and low-income applicants — including people with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency — will get clearer eligibility information, better outreach, required translation/accessible formats (including ASL), and simpler enrollment processes, increasing access to benefits.
Family caregivers and parents will need to provide the same information less often, reducing paperwork burden and time spent on applications and renewals.
Medicaid/Medicare beneficiaries and patients with chronic conditions will likely see faster claim resolutions and better customer service due to improved staff training and strengthened dispute/appeals handling.
Taxpayers and state governments could face increased federal and state administrative spending to implement the recommended changes.
State Medicaid/CHIP agencies and other state offices may face added administrative burden and short-term disruption while updating systems, websites, and training staff to comply with new requirements.
Patients, people with disabilities, and others could face increased privacy and data-sharing risks if efforts to share information across federal agencies are not carefully managed.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires CMS and SSA to review and streamline eligibility, applications, communications, and access across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and Social Security to reduce burden on family caregivers.
Introduced March 31, 2025 by Kat Cammack · Last progress March 31, 2025
Directs CMS and the Social Security Administration to review and simplify how people and family caregivers apply for and use Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and Social Security benefits. It orders the agencies to reduce duplicative paperwork, improve communications and access (including language and disability accommodations), train staff about caregiver needs, improve dispute and appeals handling, and consult regularly with family caregivers and stakeholders. Sets clear definitions of covered programs, family caregiver, disability, and which U.S. jurisdictions count as States. The bill focuses on making it easier for caregivers and beneficiaries to get information and services, but does not provide new funding or create new benefit programs.