Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2026
The bill clarifies Medicare payment and coding for ultralightweight titanium/carbon‑fiber wheelchair bases and increases cost transparency, but does so at the risk of higher out‑of‑pocket costs for beneficiaries and added administrative burdens for suppliers that could limit access.
Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act
The bill standardizes reporting options, protects partial ACO submissions, funds and pilots digital reporting to reduce provider burden and improve measurement, but does so by giving the Secretary more flexible implementation authority, risking reduced transparency and completeness of oversight, imposing modest costs on smaller providers, and shifting $8 million in Medicare Improvement Fund resources without net savings.
Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program Reauthorization
The bill extends and broadens support for rural hospitals—helping preserve payments, access, and short-term financial stability for rural communities—at the cost of higher Medicare spending and the risk of delaying broader reforms or diverting resources from other rural health priorities.
Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act
The bill continues and studies Medicare Acute Hospital Care at Home—preserving in-home access and generating evidence on quality, cost, and equity—but does so while cutting dedicated improvement funding and extending waivers that raise fiscal and patient-safety risks and delay firm policy conclusions.
Urging the protection of Medicare from the devastating cuts caused by H.R. 1.
The resolution raises awareness and political pressure to protect Medicare and avoid automatic sequestration, but it also underscores that projected deficits could trigger deep, across-the-board cuts that threaten health care access, social safety-net programs, and other federal priorities, forcing difficult trade-offs for taxpayers and vulnerable Americans.
Urging the protection of Medicare from the devastating cuts caused by H.R. 1.
The resolution increases transparency about large projected Medicare shortfalls—helping prompt responses to protect providers—but it also highlights risks that sequestration-driven cuts could reduce benefits for millions, strain health providers, and worsen federal fiscal pressures.
Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act
The bill expands Medicare coverage and access for implanted middle ear devices, easing costs for beneficiaries and enabling provider billing, while creating modest increases in Medicare spending and near-term implementation burden for CMS and providers.
Medicare Dental, Hearing, and Vision Expansion Act of 2025
The bill significantly expands Medicare benefits for dental, hearing, and vision—improving access and lowering some out‑of‑pocket costs for seniors and people with disabilities—while introducing new cost sharing, payment caps, and administrative complexity that could limit provider participation, constrain choice, and shift costs over time.
COMPLETE Care Act
The bill increases Medicare payments and funds technical assistance to expand integrated behavioral health in primary care—likely improving access for beneficiaries and supporting providers—but raises federal costs and risks uneven uptake that could widen disparities or skew service delivery.
Bipartisan Health Care Act
The bill expands funding, transparency, and public‑health preparedness which can improve access, lower hidden drug costs, and strengthen readiness — but it imposes substantial reporting, privacy, and implementation burdens and raises federal spending that may shift costs to taxpayers, plans, providers, or patients.
Patients Before Middlemen Act
The bill increases pharmacy network access and PBM transparency to lower patient drug costs and protect local pharmacies, but it also raises compliance, administrative, and liability costs for plans, PBMs, and CMS that could translate into higher premiums, narrower benefits, or implementation delays.
EPIC Act of 2025
The bill preserves some near-term negotiation benefits for certain drugs in 2026–2027 and shifts negotiation focus to older, better-studied medicines from 2028 onward, but it delays negotiated price relief for many drugs during years 8–11 post-approval — likely raising costs for patients and Medicare while reducing HHS's bargaining leverage.
Finn Sawyer Access to Cancer Testing Act
The bill greatly expands and clarifies coverage and reimbursement for advanced cancer genomic testing and invests in clinician training—improving access and care quality for many—while imposing test-frequency limits, payment caps, and fiscal/state‑level rollout challenges that may leave some patients or providers with added costs and create uneven access.
Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act
The bill prevents immediate federal staffing and reporting mandates—reducing provider costs and regulatory burdens—but sacrifices enforceable protections and funding that are most likely to produce timely, widespread improvements in nursing home staffing and resident care, relying instead on an unfunded advisory panel whose recommendations may be slow or hard to implement.
Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2025
The bill expands who can prescribe cardiac and pulmonary rehab and clarifies permitted delivery locations—improving access and convenience for Medicare beneficiaries but likely increasing Medicare costs and causing short-term billing/compliance uncertainty for providers.
PLASMA Act
The bill phases in discounted prices for covered plasma-derived biologics that should reduce out-of-pocket costs and create more predictable pricing, but savings arrive gradually and unevenly, while manufacturers and program administrators face revenue and implementation burdens.
More Behavioral Health Providers Act of 2025
The bill expands a targeted 15% Medicare payment bonus to more mental health providers and clinics in shortage areas to improve access for Medicare beneficiaries, at the cost of higher Part B spending, potential mis-targeting of funds, and added administrative complexity.
I CAN Act
The bill broadens who can provide and bill for Medicare/Medicaid services—improving access and provider participation—while increasing program costs, administrative burden, and the risk of variable access or care quality across states.
SOLES Act
The bill provides targeted federal funding to raise Medicare outpatient payments for sole community hospitals in Alaska and Hawaii to preserve services in remote communities, but does so at added federal cost, without reducing patient cost-sharing, excludes many other rural hospitals, and may not deliver immediate relief.
CRITICAL Act
The bill clarifies Medicare treatment for CAH‑related inpatient and linked outpatient/ambulance/post‑acute services in noncontiguous states to help preserve local access, but it leaves funding/timing unclear and may create administrative or reimbursement risks for providers.
Ensuring Outpatient Quality for Rural States Act
The bill raises Medicare OPD payments for Alaska and Hawaii to help sustain outpatient access in high‑cost, remote areas, but does so at increased federal cost and without guarantees that higher payments will improve quality or encourage efficiency.
Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act
The bill directs sustained, inflation‑adjusted funding and oversight to strengthen Medicare/Medicaid fraud detection and program integrity—potentially saving taxpayer dollars and improving transparency—while creating new mandatory spending, privacy concerns, and added compliance burdens for providers.
Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act
The bill prioritizes nurse and patient safety by limiting excessive hours and strengthening enforcement and transparency, but it raises staffing, administrative, and compliance costs—especially for smaller and rural providers—and leaves some safety gaps during declared emergencies.
Medicare at Home Act
The bill extends a limited Medicare in‑home personal care benefit and raises worker standards and pay to expand access and improve quality, but it caps hours, increases program costs and premiums, and creates administrative and coverage gaps that could leave high‑need and low‑income beneficiaries shortchanged.
Pay PCPs Act of 2026
The bill shifts Medicare primary care toward prospective composite/PMPM payments to promote more coordinated, accessible, and team-based care and to give primary care practices predictable revenue, but it increases federal spending and implementation complexity and creates risks of uneven provider and beneficiary impacts and potential inequities for those who don't or can't designate a primary care provider.
Accountable Produce is Medicine Act of 2026
The bill expands coverage of food‑and‑nutrition services for people with diet‑related chronic conditions—potentially improving health and reducing costly care—but it increases administrative complexity and short‑term fiscal risk, with uneven access and provider financial exposure possible depending on uptake and evidence of savings.
PREFERRED Screening Act
The bill would expand Medicare coverage for personalized breast‑cancer risk assessment and improve access—especially in underserved areas—but does so using existing CMI funds, excludes Medicare Advantage enrollees, raises cost and privacy risks from expanded genetic testing and family notification, and could be implemented without proven clinical efficacy or long‑term guarantees.
Medicare Home Health Payment Integrity and Protection Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, data integrity, and predictability of some payment rules to reduce fraud and improve fairness in home health care, but does so at the cost of higher compliance burdens, potential mispricing and access risks for smaller/rural providers, and modest new federal spending.
SUSTAIN 340B Act
The bill strengthens 340B program oversight, transparency, and patient access protections while imposing substantial new reporting, audit, and compliance requirements (and fees) that risk raising administrative costs and disrupting access for some providers and patients—particularly small, rural, or resource‑constrained safety‑net providers.
Equity in Pretrial Health Coverage Act
The bill preserves and funds health coverage for people detained pending disposition—improving continuity of care and reducing uncompensated local costs—at the expense of increased federal spending, added state administrative work, and potential billing/coordination challenges.
