Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify congressional intent and preserve patient access to home infusion therapy under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
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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.
Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act
This bill specifically includes pharmacy services and home infusion drugs that are administered without a pump as part of covered home infusion therapy under Medicare. The bill also allows nurses and physician assistants to establish and review the plan of care for home infusion therapy, and it specifies that payment may be made regardless of whether a practitioner is physically present in the home at the time the drug is administered.
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- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- FEDERAL HEALTH POLICY STRATEGIES
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS
- MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.
- THE ALS ASSOCIATION
- PREMIER, INC.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- White House Office
- Education, Dept of
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2172: Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2172/
"H.R. 2172: Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2172/.
H.R. 2172, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2172/.
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