To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a demonstration program to provide payment under the Medicare program for living kidney donor transplant facilitator training.

Key Provisions

• Creates an 8-year Medicare program to pay hospitals for training living kidney donor facilitators.
• Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set up this program within 180 days of the bill becoming law.
• Lets hospitals that perform kidney transplants get paid by Medicare for their training programs.
• Defines that these training programs would teach people to help Medicare patients find living kidney donors and guide them through the donation process.
• Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive certain Medicare rules if needed to run the program.
• Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the program's results, including increases in living donors and potential Medicare cost savings, with an initial report due in 6 years and annual updates for the following two years.