MAP for Care Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill directs HHS to create a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program that accredits advance-directive vendors, links beneficiaries to State-compliant forms, and supports near real-time access to certified advance directives.
Who Benefits and How
Medicare beneficiaries would get a federal pathway to create, store, update, and share advance directives more reliably, and providers and legally designated decision-makers could gain faster access when care decisions are needed.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HHS and accredited advance-directive vendors would have to build and maintain enrollment, access, privacy, interoperability, quality-review, and survey systems.
Key Provisions
- Creates a voluntary Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program.
- Requires HHS to accredit advance-directive vendors or use an accreditation organization.
- Requires online and near real-time access, privacy protections, annual quality review, beneficiary surveys, and State-law compliance.
- Requires CMS to publish links to statutory and alternative advance-directive forms and a State-by-State index.
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
This bill directs HHS to create a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program that accredits advance-directive vendors, links beneficiaries to State-compliant forms, and supports near real-time access to certified advance directives.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill directs HHS to create a Medicare Advance Directive Certification Program that accredits advance-directive vendors, links beneficiaries to State-compliant forms, and supports near real-time access to certified advance directives.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare beneficiaries seeking reliable advance-directive storage and access
- Providers and legal decision-makers needing timely access to beneficiary directives
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- HHS and accredited advance-directive vendors implementing the program
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Cassidy (for himself and Mr. Coons) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Advance-directive vendors and other entities seeking accreditation under the program, Medicare beneficiaries using certified advance directives
Positive-direction: Medicare beneficiaries using certified advance directives
Negative-direction: Advance-directive vendors and other entities seeking accreditation under the program
Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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.
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