Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Expands Medicare coverage for medical nutrition therapy to more diseases and conditions and broadens the clinicians who can furnish or coordinate those services.
Who Benefits and How
Medicare beneficiaries with a wider range of chronic conditions gain access to reimbursable medical nutrition therapy services.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Medicare spending may rise and program administrators must update eligibility and coverage rules for medical nutrition therapy.
Key Provisions
- Finds that medical nutrition therapy is clinically important and currently under-covered in Medicare.
- Expands the diseases and conditions for which Medicare covers medical nutrition therapy.
- Broadens eligible referring or furnishing clinicians and creates a two-year implementation window.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Expands Medicare coverage for medical nutrition therapy to more diseases and conditions and broadens the clinicians who can furnish or coordinate those services.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Social Welfare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Expands Medicare coverage for medical nutrition therapy to more diseases and conditions and broadens the clinicians who can furnish or coordinate those services.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare beneficiaries needing medical nutrition therapy
- Health professionals furnishing medical nutrition therapy
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare program administrators and federal payers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Kelly of Illinois (for herself, Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, …
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Medicare beneficiaries needing medical nutrition therapy
Health professionals furnishing medical nutrition therapy
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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