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Expands Medicare coverage for outpatient diabetes self-management training by defining covered hours (an initial 10 hours that remain available until used, plus 2 hours per year thereafter), allowing additional medically necessary hours with clinician approval, updating medical nutrition therapy rules, and eliminating the Medicare deductible for these diabetes training services effective for services furnished on or after January 1, 2027. Creates a Medicare model test to evaluate covering virtual diabetes outpatient self-management training, requiring the Department to implement the model by January 1, 2026, measure health and cost outcomes (e.g., A1c, hospitalizations, medication adherence), and consult stakeholders shortly after enactment.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced June 6, 2025 by Kim Schrier · Last progress 9 months ago