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To establish a demonstration program to provide integrated care for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a demonstration program for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Under the program, renal dialysis facilities, kidney disease specialists, physician practices, and other health care practitioners may form an organization that partners with certain health care entities to provide integrated care to beneficiaries with ESRD. Such care must include all covered Medicare benefits as well as transition services for transplantations, palliative care, and hospice. Each organization must have a minimum number or percentage of participating beneficiaries (350 or 60% of beneficiaries served at the organization's facilities) and must also comply with certain fiscal, governance, and quality of care requirements. Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study certain data that is reported to the CMS regarding pediatric dialysis care, as well as the effects of race-based corrections to a specified kidney function test on referrals of ESRD patients for transplant evaluations.

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Earl Blumenauer (D)*,  Mark Amodei (R),  Jim Banks (R),  Andy Barr (R),  Nanette Barragán (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Mike Bost (R),  Brendan Boyle (D),  Anthony Brindisi (D),  Anthony Brown (D),  Ken Buck (R),  G. Butterfield (D),  Ken Calvert (R),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  Steve Chabot (R),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Lacy Clay (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Tom Cole (R),  Angie Craig (D),  Danny Davis (D),  Rodney Davis (R),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Diana DeGette (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Neal Dunn (R),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Brian Fitzpatrick (R),  Lois Frankel (D),  Mike Gallagher (R),  Vicente Gonzalez (D),  Glenn Grothman (R),  Michael Guest (R),  Josh Harder (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Kevin Hern (R),  Jaime Herrera Beutler (R),  George Holding (R),  Steven Horsford (D),  Richard Hudson (R),  Marcy Kaptur (D),  Mike Kelly (R),  Dan Kildee (D),  Ann Kuster (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Billy Long (R),  Tom Malinowski (D),  David McKinley (R),  Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R),  Grace Meng (D),  Carol Miller (R),  Paul Mitchell (I),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Steven Palazzo (R),  Donald Payne (D),  Greg Pence (R),  Ed Perlmutter (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Collin Peterson (D),  Guy Reschenthaler (R),  Tom Rice (R),  Denver Riggleman (R),  Raul Ruiz (D),  Tim Ryan (D),  Mary Gay Scanlon (D),  David Schweikert (R),  David Scott (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Donna Shalala (D),  Mikie Sherrill (D),  Jason Smith (R),  Lloyd Smucker (R),  Darren Soto (D),  Elise Stefanik (R),  Haley Stevens (D),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  David Trone (D),  Jeff Van Drew (R),  Marc Veasey (D),  Filemón Vela (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Ann Wagner (R),  Jackie Walorski (R),  Brad Wenstrup (R),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (on 09/15/2020)

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