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Congress·In Committee·H.R. 7581

Kidney Transplants: Training for Donor Facilitators

LOVE Act

29 days ago·View on Congress.gov

Legislative Progress

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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.

Milestones

2 milestones2 actions
Feb 13, 2026House

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.

Feb 13, 2026

Introduced in House

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

LOVE Act

Bill NumberHR 7581
Congress119th Congress
ChamberHouse of Representatives
Latest ActionReferred 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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