3.0.0 2649 2023-03-08T20:12:14Z 2023-03-08T20:12:14Z Senate S 2021-08-05 117 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-08-05T22:23:51Z BETTER Kidney Care Act 117 4942 HR 2021-08-09 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2021-08-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2021-08-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN C. N S001191 Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ] Kyrsten Sinema D AZ 2021-08-05 True H001079 Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] Cindy Hyde-Smith R MS 2021-09-15 False B001243 Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] Marsha Blackburn R TN 2021-09-28 False C001096 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] Kevin Cramer R ND 2021-10-26 False B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2021-11-29 False Health Health 00 2021-08-05 Introduced in Senate 2021-08-21T01:40:08Z 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.

]]> BETTER Kidney Care Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a demonstration program to provide integrated care for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title BETTER Kidney Care Act Short Title(s) as Introduced BETTER Kidney Care Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients Kidney Care Act Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2649is/xml/BILLS-117s2649is.xml 2021-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.