Seniors Deserve SMARTER Care Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill prohibits HHS from implementing the WISeR Medicare prior-authorization model or any substantially similar model.
Who Benefits and How
Medicare beneficiaries and providers affected by the WISeR demonstration would avoid a new prior-authorization process and the delays or administrative friction that could come with it.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HHS and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation would lose the ability to implement that model or a substantially similar replacement.
Key Provisions
- Bars implementation of the WISeR model described in the July 1, 2025 Federal Register notice.
- Extends the ban to any substantially similar Medicare payment or service-delivery model.
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 prohibits HHS from implementing the WISeR Medicare prior-authorization model or any substantially similar model.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill prohibits HHS from implementing the WISeR Medicare prior-authorization model or any substantially similar model.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Medicare beneficiaries and providers subject to the proposed WISeR model
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- HHS and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Baldwin, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Medicare beneficiaries who would otherwise be subject to the WISeR prior-authorization model, Providers whose Medicare services would otherwise go through the WISeR prior-authorization workflow
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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