Medicare would pay separately for palliative dialysis for patients also receiving hospice care.
Right now, it's not always clear if Medicare covers dialysis that helps with comfort for people also receiving hospice care. This bill would make sure Medicare explicitly covers these services and sets up a separate way for providers to get paid for them. This helps people with end-stage kidney disease get needed comfort care while in hospice.
Today, Medicare coverage and payment for palliative dialysis for hospice patients is unclear, often leading to services being bundled into hospice payments or not clearly covered separately. After this bill, Medicare would explicitly cover these services and pay for them separately, initially up to ten sessions, with the possibility for the session limit to change after the government's budget year 2029.
HR 8376 · 119th Congress · April 20, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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