Kidney Care Access Protection Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Sep 8, 2025
What it does
The Kidney Care Access Protection Act would amend the Social Security Act to improve Medicare coverage for innovative treatments for end-stage renal disease by extending and making permanent certain payment adjustments for new renal dialysis drugs, biological products, and devices. It would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide transitional drug add-on payments for at least three years for qualifying new treatments approved on or after January 1, 2020, and establish a permanent post-TDAPA adjustment calculated at 65 percent of drug expenditures per dialysis service, updated annually for inflation. The bill also clarifies that certain drugs for comorbid conditions are…
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Where it stands
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.