Rep. Chu Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Expand Medicare Coverage for Eating Disorder Treatment
The Nutrition CARE Act of 2025 is currently sitting in the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees. No action has been taken on this bill since March 2025. Because there has been no progress for 15 months, the bill is considered stalled.
The bill has support from both parties, which is a great start. However, it still needs to go through several committees and many health bills face hurdles regarding their long-term costs.
This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.
Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 6961 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 6961 (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
The bill would expand Medicare Part B to cover medical nutrition therapy for beneficiaries diagnosed with eating disorders, adding a new covered service that currently does not exist. An estimated 1.6 to 2 million Medicare beneficiaries with eating disorders would become eligible for 13 hours of nutrition therapy in their first year and 4 hours each year after, reducing out-of-pocket costs and improving access to a key part of eating disorder treatment.
“It is estimated that 1,619,300 to 2,080,600 individuals on Medicare part B are affected by an eating disorder, including 420,500 to 560,700 beneficiaries who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.”
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
Nutrition CARE Act of 2025
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