Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act

This bill requires a part of the federal government that tests new ideas for Medicare to try out a program that brings palliative care — which focuses on comfort and support for people with serious illnesses like cancer — directly into communities. Under this program, teams of different health care professionals would provide around-the-clock coordinated care for Medicare patients who are seriously ill or injured. The program could take the place of a similar Medicare program that ended in 2021. The government would also have to study how well the program works by comparing patients in the program to those not in it, looking at things like whether and how long patients use hospice care.

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