CARE Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test a comprehensive alternative response for emergencies model under the Medicare program.
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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.
Comprehensive Alternative Response for Emergencies Act of 2025 or the CARE Act of 2025
This bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a five-year model that provides for Medicare payment for ground ambulance services that do not result in the transport of the patient.
Under the model, Medicare payment may be furnished for ground ambulance services when an ambulance is dispatched in response to an emergency medical call but the ambulance does not end up transporting the patient. Payment rates under the model must generally align with the payment rates that apply when there is an actual transport.
The Government Accountability Office must report on the general access of Medicare beneficiaries to emergency medical services, including the impact of the model on beneficiary access and outcomes.
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- MANATT, PHELPS, AND PHILLIPS
- MANATT, PHELPS, AND PHILLIPS
- MANATT, PHELPS, AND PHILLIPS
- MANATT, PHELPS, AND PHILLIPS
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
- WHITMER & WORRALL, LLC
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- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2538: CARE Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2538/
"H.R. 2538: CARE Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2538/.
H.R. 2538, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2538/.
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