Legislation aimed at health plans that push patients to Medicare gets more co-sponsors

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would slow efforts by commercial health plans from moving patients with end-stage kidney disease to Medicare now has 30 co-sponsors, according to a press release.
The Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act (H.R. 6860) was introduced last December by Reps Mike Kelly, R-Pa.; Yvette D. Clarke, D-NY; Neal Dunn, MD, R-Fla.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; John Joyce, R-Pa., and Raul Ruiz, D-Calif. in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 in favor of Marietta Memorial Hospital Health Plan that made payments for dialysis care to DaVita Inc.

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would slow efforts by commercial health plans from moving patients with end-stage kidney disease to Medicare now has 30 co-sponsors, according to a press release.
The Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act (H.R. 6860) was introduced last December by Reps Mike Kelly, R-Pa.; Yvette D. Clarke, D-NY; Neal Dunn, MD, R-Fla.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; John Joyce, R-Pa., and Raul Ruiz, D-Calif. in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 in favor of Marietta Memorial Hospital Health Plan that made payments for dialysis care to DaVita Inc.