LOVE Act

Key Points

• This bill would create an 8-year test program where Medicare pays hospitals to train special facilitators. These facilitators would help people with permanent kidney failure find living donors and guide those donors through the medical process.
• This plan targets people who often spend years on waiting lists for a kidney. By training people to help find living donors, the goal is to get patients off dialysis and into transplants faster, which can save lives and improve health.
• Hospitals that perform kidney transplants would be eligible to join the program. Medicare would cover the costs of running these training programs to ensure facilitators are well-prepared to help patients and donors.
• The government will track if this program actually increases the number of living donors and saves Medicare money. Kidney transplants are often cheaper for the government in the long run than paying for years of expensive dialysis treatments.
• The program is scheduled to last for 8 years. Congress will receive a major report 6 years in to see if the program is working well enough to keep it going or expand it.

Impact Analysis

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