Ensuring Access to Essential Providers Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Sep 11, 2025
What it does
The Ensuring Access to Essential Providers Act of 2025 would amend the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage plans to include a sufficient number and geographic distribution of essential community providers—such as Federally Qualified Health Centers, Ryan White HIV/AIDS clinics, Indian Health Service facilities, rural hospitals, and mental health or substance use treatment centers—in their provider networks to ensure low-income, rural, and underserved populations have reasonable and timely access to care. The bill mandates that plans offer to contract with all available essential community providers in their service area and meet payment standards for Federally Qualified Health…
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Where it goes next
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