New Bill Proposes Expanding Medicare Coverage for Online Diabetes Prevention Programs
This bill is currently sitting in the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees. It has not moved forward since February 2025, which means it has been stalled for about 16 months. The bill will not progress unless these committees decide to take action on it.
No action since February 2025
This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.
Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 7856 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 7856 (118th) →Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
Health tech companies and digital health startups that offer CDC-recognized diabetes prevention programs would gain a new pathway to become Medicare suppliers. By allowing entities to participate as virtual-only MDPP suppliers across state lines, the bill opens up a nationwide market for qualifying online diabetes prevention providers.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
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Introduced in House
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
PREVENT DIABETES Act
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