Seriously ill Medicare patients would get new community-based palliative care options at home.
This bill would create a new 5-year program for Medicare to test community-based palliative care. It would help seriously ill Medicare patients get support and organized care in their homes. The goal is to improve their experience and reduce avoidable hospital stays. This new program would replace an existing one called the Medicare Care Choices Model.
Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMI) can choose to test various healthcare models, and the Medicare Care Choices Model currently exists. If this bill becomes law, the CMI would be required to develop and carry out a new 5-year community-based palliative care model for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries, which would replace the Medicare Care Choices Model. This new model would include specific rules for who can join, what services are offered, how to access care, and how the program will be measured.
S 1935 · 119th Congress · June 3, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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