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S. 4574 116th Congress Senate

Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients (BETTER) Kidney Care Act

Official title: A bill to establish a demonstration program to provide integrated care for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 30, 2020 Introduced by: Todd Young Republican · Indiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients (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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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 4
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Bennet, Michael F.
Colorado · Nov 30, 2020
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Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Nov 18, 2020
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Daines, Steve
Montana · Nov 18, 2020
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Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Oct 21, 2020
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Hyde-Smith, Cindy
Mississippi · Oct 21, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4574: Bringing Enhanced Treatments and Therapies to ESRD Recipients (BETTER) Kidney Care Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4574/
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