IDEAL Act
The IDEAL Act establishes a 2025-2028 pilot program to improve health outcomes for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (dual-eligible individuals) by providing safety net health plans with a 5% add-on payment. This funding allows plans to cover non-medical "social determinants of health" services like transportation, housing assistance, pest control, meal delivery for chronic illness, and community programs. Safety net plans - nonprofit organizations serving low-income, elderly, or disabled populations - must use the payment to supplement, not replace, existing care. The program requires annual reporting on service usage, beneficiary satisfaction, health outcomes (e.g., emergency visits), and costs, with a final report to Congress by 2031.
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Introduction
Dec 2023
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Introduced Dec 13, 2023
Last action Dec 17, 2024
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Dec 17, 2024
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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Dec 15, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Dec 13, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
lower
Dec 13, 2023
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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Earl Blumenauer
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