3.0.0 8254 2023-01-11T13:44:59Z 2023-01-11T13:44:59Z House HR 2020-09-15 116 [Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 159 (Tuesday, September 15, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. BLUMENAUER:H.R. 8254.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8[Page H4428]]]> hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2020-09-15T13:00:40Z hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing Referred to 2020-09-15T13:00:35Z Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients (BETTER) Kidney Care Act 116 4574 S 2020-09-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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[D-TX-33] Marc Veasey D TX A. 33 2020-12-17 False Health Academic performance and assessments Child health Congressional oversight Digestive and metabolic diseases Government studies and investigations Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Health technology, devices, supplies Hospital care Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Medicaid Medical education Medicare Nursing Nutrition and diet Organ and tissue donation and transplantation Prescription drugs Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Health 00 2020-09-15 Introduced in House 2020-11-03T21:44:14Z Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients Kidney Care Act or the BETTER Kidney Care Act

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a demonstration program for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Under the program, renal dialysis facilities, kidney disease specialists, physician practices, and other health care practitioners may form an organization that partners with certain health care entities to provide integrated care to beneficiaries with ESRD. Such care must include all covered Medicare benefits as well as transition services for transplantations, palliative care, and hospice. Each organization must have a minimum number or percentage of participating beneficiaries (350 or 60% of beneficiaries served at the organization's facilities) and must also comply with certain fiscal, governance, and quality of care requirements.

Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study certain data that is reported to the CMS regarding pediatric dialysis care, as well as the effects of race-based corrections to a specified kidney function test on referrals of ESRD patients for transplant evaluations.

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