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Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act

Introduced: May 6, 2025 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act

This bill allows state Medicaid programs to establish health homes to provide coordinated care for individuals with sickle-cell disease. (Under current law, state Medicaid programs may establish health homes to provide coordinated care for individuals with specified chronic conditions.) States must ensure that such care includes dental and vision services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must issue best practices for states on how to design and implement such health homes.

What's happening now February 25, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Lobbying activity 26

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY
for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SERVICES INC.(FKA AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN
for AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SERVICES INC.(FKA AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM
for NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM · Minnesota · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
ARTEMIS POLICY GROUP LLC
for SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · Maryland · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY
for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
INDIGO HILL STRATEGIES
for SICK CELLS · Illinois · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026

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Cosponsors 3

Cassidy, Bill

Louisiana · May 6, 2025

Coons, Christopher A.

Delaware · May 6, 2025

Scott, Tim

South Carolina · Feb 25, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 721: Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-721/

MLA

"S. 721: Sickle Cell Disease Comprehensive Care Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-721/.

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S. 721, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-721/.

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