MAP for Care Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill adds a new Medicare Part B section requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement an Advance Directive Certification Program within five years. The program would let Medicare beneficiaries register certified electronic advance directives, use accredited vendors or entities, receive annual notification during Medicare Advantage open enrollment, and access statutory and alternative advance directive forms through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website with a State-by-State index.
Who Benefits and How
Medicare beneficiaries benefit from a more durable way to store, update, terminate, and communicate living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, proxies, and care preferences before incapacity. Advance directive technology vendors can gain accreditation and a recognized Medicare channel, while providers and suppliers treating Medicare beneficiaries may gain clearer access to authenticated directives when making care decisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staff, and any contracted accreditation organization must design the program, accredit vendors, establish privacy and HIPAA-compliant access controls, notify beneficiaries, maintain website links and indexes, and review alternative forms submitted with State-law attorney opinions. Vendors must meet certification criteria, support secure enrollment and updates, and protect directive records.
Key Provisions
- Establishes a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program within five years.
- Requires accreditation criteria for advance directive vendors and entities offering certified directives.
- Directs CMS to provide statutory forms, alternative forms, and a State-by-State form index on its website.
- Requires HIPAA-aligned privacy and access controls for program enrollment and directive registration.
- Protects beneficiary choice by allowing program participants to disenroll or terminate a certified directive at any time.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Create a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program with accredited advance-directive vendors, beneficiary registration, CMS form access, privacy standards, and provider access rules.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Technology, Aging
Primary Purpose
Create a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program with accredited advance-directive vendors, beneficiary registration, CMS form access, privacy standards, and provider access rules.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Medicare beneficiaries
- Advance directive technology vendors
- Health care providers
- Legal representatives helping Medicare patients
Identified Costs
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staff
- Advance directive vendors
- Accreditation organizations
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Mr. Murphy (for himself and Mr. Thompson of California) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Health care providers accessing registered directives, Medicare beneficiaries adopting certified advance directives, Medicare beneficiaries maintaining electronic advance directives
Advance directive technology vendors, Advance directive vendors seeking Medicare accreditation
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program staff, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website administrators
Accreditation organizations reviewing advance directive vendors
Individuals submitting alternative advance directive forms
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Vendors"
- → ['Advance directive technology vendors']
- "Beneficiaries"
- → ['Medicare beneficiaries', 'Health care providers', 'Legal representatives']
- "Federal administrators"
- → ['Secretary of Health and Human Services', 'Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staff']
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
Learn more about our methodology