3.0.0 1248 2026-07-24T22:18:17Z 2026-07-24T22:18:17Z Senate S S 2025-04-02 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1248 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-04-02T16:25:21Z EASE Act of 2025 119 2533 HR 2025-04-01 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. Related bill CRS 2025-04-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2025-04-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001190 Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK] Markwayne Mullin R OK N P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2025-04-02 True T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland 2025-04-02 True Health Health 2025-05-01T15:00:10Z 00 2025-04-02 Introduced in Senate 2026-07-24T22:17:40Z Ensuring Access to Specialty Care Everywhere Act or the EASE Act

This bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a model that uses a network of providers to remotely furnish specialty health care to Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries in rural areas.

To conduct the model, the CMMI must select at least one provider network that is a nonprofit entity and that consists of at least 50 federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, or rural emergency hospitals. At least half of the providers in the network must be located in rural areas. Providers must use digital methods (e.g., telehealth technology) to provide specialty care and must coordinate with beneficiaries' primary care providers.

]]> EASE Act Display Title 45 EASE Act 2025-04-12T03:23:17Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 EASE Act 2025-04-12T03:23:16Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Ensuring Access to Specialty Care Everywhere Act 2025-04-12T03:23:16Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test a model to improve access to specialty health services for certain Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. 2025-04-12T03:18:29Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-04-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1248is/xml/BILLS-119s1248is.xml 2025-04-02 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.