CARE Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test and evaluate a payment model for ambulance response without transport, including telehealth-linked care.
Who Benefits and How
Ambulance providers and patients who can be treated without transport could benefit from a payment model that better supports response-only care and telehealth integration.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal health administrators would need to design, operate, and evaluate a new payment model and related reporting.
Key Provisions
- Requires a CMMI model for ambulance response without transport.
- Aligns model design with telehealth and equivalent payment treatment.
- Requires GAO review and sets a five-year model term.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test and evaluate a payment model for ambulance response without transport, including telehealth-linked care.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test and evaluate a payment model for ambulance response without transport, including telehealth-linked care.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Ambulance providers and patients suited to treatment without transport
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal health officials responsible for designing and evaluating the new payment model
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Collins (for herself and Mr. Welch) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Ambulance providers furnishing response-only or telehealth-linked care
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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