S 1936 · in committee · niche
Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act of 2025
- healthcare
What this bill does
- The bill requires Medicare to test paying for blood transfusions separately for hospice patients instead of including them in the standard daily hospice payment.
- Hospice patients receiving Medicare benefits and hospitals providing transfusion services are affected by this payment change.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will conduct the test and compare patient outcomes between the new and standard payment models.
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Community Threads
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How might separating transfusion payments from daily hospice rates change which end-of-life patients receive blood transfusions?
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What specific patient outcomes should the Medicare innovation test measure to determine whether this payment change improves hospice care?
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Who bears the financial risk if separate transfusion payments increase overall Medicare hospice spending without improving patient outcomes?
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Sponsor · D-NV
Jacky Rosen
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Introduced 2025-06-03
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Legislative timeline
2025-06-03 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2025-06-03 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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