HR 7581 United States House · 119th Congress

LOVE Act

This bill establishes a Medicare demonstration program to pay hospitals for training staff (called "facilitators") who help Medicare beneficiaries with kidney failure find living kidney donors and navigate the transplant process. It directly affects hospitals performing kidney transplants and Medicare patients with end-stage renal disease. The program runs for 8 years, with Medicare covering hospitals' costs for facilitator training, and requires annual reports tracking increases in living donors, transplants, and potential cost savings from reduced dialysis use. The Secretary must submit detailed reports to Congress on outcomes and program effectiveness.
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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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