Healthcare

Stop STALLING Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Stop Significant and Time-wasting Abuse Limiting Legitimate Innovation of New Generics Act or the Stop STALLING Act This bill makes it an unfair method of competition to submit an objectively baseless petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to interfere with a competitor's application for market approval of a drug. The bill authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to sue an individual or entity that submits such a petition to the FDA. A party found liable in such a lawsuit is subject to civil penalties, such as a fine of up to $50,000 for each day that the FDA spent reviewing the baseless petition.

Recognizing the significance of Sjögren's disease as a serious and systemic autoimmune disease and expressing support for the designation of April 2025 as "Sjögren's Awareness Month".

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery Act or the RECOVER Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement a three-year pilot program to make grants to established non-profit mental health care providers to provide culturally competent, evidence-based mental health care for veterans. 

Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that state Medicaid programs check, as part of the provider enrollment and reenrollment process, whether providers are deceased through the Social Security Administration's Death Master File. The bill requires states to continue to check this database on at least a quarterly basis after providers are enrolled.

Common Sense Air Regulations Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Common Sense Air Regulations Act This bill nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) final rule titled Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (89 Fed. Reg. 16202) and published on March 6, 2024. Among other elements, the rule revised primary (health-based) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter under the Clean Air Act. NAAQS are air quality standards set and adjusted by the EPA to protect public health and the environment from certain pollutants.

Cormorant Relief Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Cormorant Relief Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue the depredation order for double-crested cormorants at aquaculture facilities in certain states. (The previous order was vacated in 2016 by court order.) Depredation orders allow for the taking (i.e., capturing, killing, dispersing, or transport of the carcass) of a specified species without a permit, generally to reduce damage caused by the species or to protect interests like health or property. Reissuing this order authorizes landowners, operators, tenants, and employees of entities engaged in aquaculture to take double-crested cormorants that are causing or threatening harm at aquaculture facilities and state and federal fish hatcheries. Interior must reissue the depredation order with updates, including an expansion of (1) the number of states covered by the order, and (2) the entities to whom the order applies (i.e., private lake and pond managers who are licensed by the state). Under the bill, Interior must renew the depredation order every five years.

To ensure national uniformity with respect to certain requirements relating to preterm infant formula, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2025

Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025 This bill includes any nurse registry as an eligible health care provider under the Veterans Community Care Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under the bill, a nurse registry is a person who satisfies applicable state licensure requirements and procures, or attempts to procure, contracts or agreements on behalf of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions, or homemakers under which such individuals may furnish health care-related or assistive services and receive compensation.

Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Justice to report on (1) targeted attacks on law enforcement officers, (2) the feasibility of incorporating such attacks into existing crime reporting systems, and (3) the mental health resources that are available to law enforcement officers.

Raising awareness of the racial disparities in the impact of colorectal cancer on the Black community.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

This resolution recognizes the deadly impact colorectal cancer; acknowledges racial disparities in the impact of colorectal cancer, particularly in the Black community; and encourages actions to address colorectal cancer and those disparities.

Recognizing the importance of sleep health and expressing support for the designation of the week of March 9 through March 15, 2025, as "Sleep Awareness Week".

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

This resolution supports the designation of Sleep Awareness Week.

Telehealth Coverage Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

Telehealth Coverage Act of 2025 This bill permanently extends coverage of telehealth services and other coverage flexibilities under Medicare. Specifically, the bill permanently extends certain flexibilities that were initially authorized during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19. Among other things, the bill allows (1) rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner); (2) the home of a beneficiary to serve as the originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) for all services (rather than for only certain services); and (3) audiologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to furnish telehealth services. The bill also permanently extends programs that provide added flexibility to treat Medicare beneficiaries at home, including the Acute Hospital Care at Home Program. The program allows hospitals to treat certain patients from emergency departments or inpatient hospital beds at home. Additionally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must (1) issue guidance for telehealth providers on how to support those with limited English proficiency, and (2) conduct outreach to providers to support screenings for medication-induced movement disorders that are associated with treating mental health disorders in at-risk patients, including telehealth screenings.

Expressing support for the goals of a "NICU Baby's Bill of Rights".

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that every person has the basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that every individual has the right to emergency health care, including abortion care.

Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2025

Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act This bill establishes a presumption of service-connection for specified diseases becoming manifest in certain military firefighter veterans to a degree of disability of 10% or more within 15 years of the veteran's separation from active military, naval, or air service. Under a presumption of service-connection, specific diseases or disabilities diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded. Veterans addressed by this bill are those who (1) are trained in fire suppression, and (2) served on active duty in a military occupational specialty or career field with a primary responsibility of firefighting or damage control for at least five years in the aggregate.

Healthy Foods for Native Seniors Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Healthy Foods for Native Seniors Act This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to establish a demonstration project that allows tribal entities (e.g., Indian tribes) to enter into self-determination contracts to purchase agricultural commodities under the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP). The CSFP distributes monthly food packages to low-income older individuals through local organizations (including tribal organizations).

Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Innovative FEED Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Innovative Feed Enhancement and Economic Development Act of 2025 or the Innovative FEED Act of 2025 This bill provides for the regulation of zootechnical animal food substances as food additives. The bill defines  zootechnical animal food substance  as a substance that is added to the food or drinking water of animals and that affects only the animal's gastrointestinal tract, with the intended purpose of affecting the byproducts of the animal's digestion, reducing foodborne pathogens, or altering the animal's gastrointestinal biome. The definition does not include substances that are used to treat or prevent diseases in animals, hormones, or active ingredients of animal drugs. Labels for zootechnical animal food substances must include a disclaimer that the substance may not be used to treat or prevent diseases in animals.   

Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act This bill specifies certain requirements for private health insurers regarding coverage of individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who are also covered under Medicare.  In particular, the bill specifies that insurers may not limit benefits, including limiting network composition, in a manner that will affect ESRD Medicare beneficiaries differently compared to others without ESRD. The bill additionally specifies that insurers are not required to include a particular renal dialysis provider or a particular number of such providers as part of their networks. 

No Veteran Falls Through the Cracks Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

No Veteran Falls Through the Cracks Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to attempt to reschedule a veteran's mental health care appointment if the veteran has canceled such an appointment.

Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act of 2025 This bill extends the specialized rate increase for Medicare payment of ground ambulance services in rural areas for an additional three years (until January 1, 2028).

Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act This bill expands flexibilities for physicians and physician-owned hospitals under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law).  The Stark law generally prohibits physicians from referring patients to receive services that are payable under Medicare or Medicaid from entities in which the physician or an immediate family member has a financial relationship. The bill allows physicians or their immediate family members to have financial interests in rural hospitals that are located more than 35 miles (or 15 miles in certain mountainous areas or areas with only secondary roads) from a hospital or critical access hospital. The Stark law also generally prohibits physician-owned hospitals from expanding the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds beyond the number in existence as of March 23, 2010, in order to be excepted under the Stark law. The bill removes this restriction.

Expressing support for the designation of the third week of March 2025 as "National CACFP Week".

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

This resolution recognizes the role of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (commonly referred to as CACFP) in improving the health of the country's most vulnerable children and adults in Head Start programs, child care programs, family day care homes, emergency shelters, adult day care homes, and after-school care by providing nutritious meals and snacks. It also supports the designation of National CACFP Week.

PARA–EMT Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

DRUG Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

No 340B Savings for Transgender Care Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act This bill expands training requirements and assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in relation to claims for covered mental health conditions (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder) based on military sexual trauma. Specifically, the bill requires VA employees who process claims for covered mental health conditions based on military sexual trauma to receive annual sensitivity training. Such training must be updated by the VA at least once a year. The VA must annually report on (1) the training it provides, and (2) any plans to expand and update such training. In providing assistance with such claims related to military sexual trauma, the VA must obtain the service medical record of the claimant and, if there is not credible supporting evidence of a military sexual trauma in the record, obtain the service personnel record of the claimant. Additionally, the VA must report to Congress regarding (1) sensitivity training required for health care professionals (including schedulers) who are contracted under a VA pilot program to perform examinations of veterans who make claims related to military sexual trauma, and (2) the VA’s plan to improve such training and ensure veterans are not retraumatized during such an examination.

Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act  This bill specifically includes pharmacy services and home infusion drugs that are administered without a pump as part of covered home infusion therapy under Medicare. The bill also allows nurses and physician assistants to establish and review the plan of care for home infusion therapy, and it specifies that payment may be made regardless of whether a practitioner is physically present in the home at the time the drug is administered. 

Medical Supply Chain Resiliency Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Medical Supply Chain Resiliency Act This bill authorizes actions to facilitate trade in medical goods (i.e., medical devices, pharmaceutical goods, or inputs for such devices or goods). Specifically, the bill authorizes the President to (1) negotiate, enter into, and enforce a trusted trade partner agreement with a country or countries with respect to medical goods; and (2) proclaim a modification of any existing duty, a continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or additional duties to carry out the trade agreement. These actions may only be taken if the President determines, based on specified considerations, that the reciprocal elimination of existing duties or other import restrictions with respect to medical goods would contribute to U.S. national security and public health.  A trusted trade partner agreement may include certain provisions, such as those to (1) reduce or eliminate duties, quotas, or other trade barriers; (2) diversify and expand supplier networks to secure a reliable supply of medical goods; and (3) harmonize regulatory procedures. Not later than 60 days before initiating negotiations with a trusted trade partner, the President must submit written notice to Congress. The bill requires congressional consultation and review of these trade agreements. A trade agreement shall not take effect if, during the required review period, Congress enacts a joint resolution of disapproval. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative must monitor compliance by a trusted trade partner with the trade agreement's commitments and obligations. Further, the President may take certain actions in response to a failure to comply.

Recognizing the longstanding and invaluable contributions of Black midwives to maternal and infant health in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Building Capacity for Care Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 2025

Agricultural Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Mental Health Care Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

A resolution recognizing March 14, 2025, as "Black Midwives Day" and the longstanding and invaluable contributions of Black midwives to maternal and infant health in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

MedShield Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Safeguarding Medicaid Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Safeguarding Medicaid Act This bill requires states and territories to implement asset verification programs to determine an individual's Medicaid eligibility.  Currently, states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are required to have asset verification programs to determine an individual's eligibility for Medicaid if the individual is age 65 or older, blind, or disabled. The bill applies this requirement to all states and territories and to all individuals seeking Medicaid eligibility.  The bill also requires state Medicaid programs to implement resource tests to determine an individual's Medicaid eligibility (currently, such tests are prohibited except for those age 65 or older or who are blind or disabled). The resource test must conform with the resource test for determining an individual's eligibility for Supplemental Security Income, unless the state specifies a different threshold. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must create a system to track any federal savings due to implementation of the required asset verification programs.  States that do not comply with federal requirements regarding Medicaid eligibility determinations must submit corrective action plans to the CMS.  

A resolution honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

A resolution designating the third week of March 2025 as "National CACFP Week".

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

This resolution designates the week beginning on March 16, 2025, as National CACFP Week. It also recognizes the role of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) in improving the health of the children and adults in child care centers, family day care homes, emergency shelters, adult day care facilities, and after-school care in the United States by providing nutritious meals and snacks.

Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Rebuild America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025 This bill allows hospitals to receive reimbursement under Medicare for certain costs associated with training nursing and allied health students in settings other than the hospital itself.  Currently, hospitals may receive reimbursement under Medicare for the reasonable costs associated with training nursing and allied health students if certain conditions are met; the criteria vary depending on whether the students are enrolled in an educational program that is operated by the hospital or another entity. If the students are part of a program that is operated by another entity, the training must occur at the hospital itself or in areas immediately surrounding the hospital in order to qualify for reimbursement (among other requirements). The bill allows hospitals to receive reimbursement for these costs if the training is conducted at an entity that is related to the hospital (i.e., common ownership or control). The bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to update regulations to reflect these changes. Additionally, the CMS may not recoup or reduce payments to hospitals with respect to costs that are allowed under the bill and must refund any such recoupments or reductions that occurred during the six-year period prior to the bill's enactment.

Reimbursing Border Communities Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Reimbursing Border Communities Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to make grants to certain border communities for expenses related to security measures along the southern border. Specifically, the local government of a community is eligible for a grant if it is located within 200 miles of the border and is not a sanctuary jurisdiction as defined by the bill. Additionally, no grant may be used to reimburse nonprofit organizations, fund legal representation, or provide educational, housing, food, or health care resources to a non-U.S. national ( alien under federal law).

Expressing support for the recognition of "Detransition Awareness Day".

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Correcting Guam’s History in the PACT Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Correcting Guam's History in the PACT Act This bill expands eligibility for a presumption of service-connection for specified diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents. Under a presumption of service-connection, specific conditions diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded. Under the bill, service performed in Guam or its territorial waters between August 15, 1958, and July 31, 1980, provides a veteran who has a specified disease that is associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents with eligibility for a presumption of service-connection. (Under current law, the eligible time frame for service in Guam is between January 9, 1962, and July 31, 1980.)

Expanding Medical Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

ROCR Value Based Program Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Radiation Oncology Case Rate Value Based Program Act of 2025 or the ROCR Value Based Program Act This bill establishes a specialized payment program under Medicare for providers and suppliers of radiation oncology services.  Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must establish a program under which radiation therapy providers (i.e., hospital outpatient departments) and suppliers (i.e., physician group practices and freestanding radiation therapy centers) receive payments for each episode of care provided to individuals with specified types of cancer. An episode of care  means the period beginning on the day radiation therapy planning is furnished to the individual and ending (1) for individuals with bone or brain metastases, 30 days later; and (2) for individuals with other cancer types, 90 days later. Participation in the program is mandatory for providers and suppliers that participate in Medicare, unless the provider or supplier is part of a state-based Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation model or qualifies for a significant hardship exemption. The CMS must set payment rates for the program based on national payment rates with specified adjustments (e.g., geographic adjustments). Providers and suppliers who provide certain transportation services for individuals under their care may receive an additional payment. Providers and suppliers must be accredited in accordance with certain standards, subject to payment reductions. The Government Accountability Office must report on (1) implementation of the program, and (2) underserved areas that are in need of more or newer radiation therapy resources.

BO’s Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Seizure Awareness and Preparedness Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Seizure Awareness and Preparedness Act This bill directs the Department of Education to award competitive grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for carrying out a program that supports elementary and secondary students who have epilepsy or a seizure disorder. Specifically, LEAs must use these subgrants to train school personnel on seizure awareness and preparedness that covers individualized health care plans and individualized emergency health care plans for students who have epilepsy or a seizure disorder.

Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act of 2025

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025

Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act of 2025 or the Block Act of 2025 This bill prohibits Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers from covering organ transplants that occur in China or that involve organs that are not procured through the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. The bill also prohibits health care providers from performing such a transplant or related services, except for life-saving services that are necessary as a result of such a transplant. Violations are subject to criminal and civil penalties.

Supporting the designation of March as "Autoimmune Awareness Month" and supporting efforts to increase awareness of autoimmune diseases and increase funding for autoimmune disease research.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2025