Hospice Care: Blood Transfusion Payment Trial
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The bill has strong bipartisan support from key senators, but many healthcare pilot programs face a long road through the full legislative process.
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Hospice care is a Medicare benefit, and currently the daily per diem payment must cover all services including expensive blood transfusions, which can discourage hospices from offering them. This bill directs Medicare's innovation center to test paying for transfusions separately, potentially making it easier for the roughly 1.7 million Medicare hospice patients each year to get transfusions without straining hospice budgets.
“the CMI shall establish and implement a model under which blood transfusions furnished to an individual receiving hospice care are paid separately from the hospice all-inclusive per diem payment under section 1814(i).”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Introduced in Senate
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Improving Access to Transfusion Care for Hospice Patients Act of 2025
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