Medical Foods and Formulas Access Act of 2025
Official title: To provide for the coverage of medical food and vitamins and individual amino acids for digestive and inherited metabolic disorders under Federal health progra… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To provide for the coverage of medical food and vitamins and individual amino acids for digestive and inherited metabolic disorders under Federal health programs, to ensure State and Federal protection for existing coverage, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
Medical Foods and Formulas Access Act of 2025
This bill expands coverage under Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to include medically necessary food and associated equipment and supplies.
The bill defines medically necessary food as specially formulated and processed products (e.g., nutritional formulas) prescribed by health care practitioners for individuals who have special dietary requirements because of certain digestive or metabolic disorders or conditions.
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- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY
- KELLEN COMPANY
- UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
- HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP
- CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5684: Medical Foods and Formulas Access Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5684/
"H.R. 5684: Medical Foods and Formulas Access Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5684/.
H.R. 5684, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5684/.
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