Congress·In Committee·H.R. 1403

Medicaid: Removing Deceased People from Enrollment

LIVE Beneficiaries Act

about 1 year ago·View on Congress.gov

Part of: President Signs Law to Curb Improper Payments via SSA Death Data Sharing

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No legislative action in over 90 days.

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Key Points

Starting in 2027, states would be required to check a national list of deaths every three months. They will use this list to see if anyone currently signed up for Medicaid has passed away.
If the records show a person has died, the state must stop making Medicaid payments for them and remove them from the program. This ensures that government health care money is only being used for people who are still alive.
To protect people from mistakes, the bill requires states to fix errors quickly. If a living person is accidentally marked as deceased and loses their coverage, the state must put them back on the program immediately and cover them for the time they were missing.
This rule would apply to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. While states can still use their own local methods to find out when someone dies, they would now be required to use the national database as a backup at least four times a year.

Milestones

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Feb 18, 2025House

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Feb 18, 2025

Introduced in House

Related Bills

4 bills

S. 891Related bill

Bipartisan Health Care Act

Mar 6 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

S. 678Related bill

LIVE Beneficiaries Act

Feb 20 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H.R. 1768Related bill

Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act

Mar 3 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

H.R. 1Related bill

An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.

Jul 4 — Became Public Law No: 119-21.