Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of multi-cancer early detection screening tests.
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Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-333, Part I.
Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
This bill allows, beginning in 2028, for Medicare coverage and payment for multi-cancer early detection screening tests that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration and that are used to screen for cancer across many cancer types, if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services determines such coverage is appropriate. Coverage is limited to those under a certain age (age 68 in 2028, increased by one year every year thereafter) and to one test every 11 months.
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- GRAIL, INC.
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC
- BALLARD SPAHR LLP
- BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM USA CORPORATION, FORMERLY REPORTED AS BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
- JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (U.S.A)
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- White House Office
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-842/
"H.R. 842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-842/.
H.R. 842, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-842/.
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