Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act

Bill: 119-hr-1303
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Fischbach, Michelle [R-MN-7]
Introduced: 2025-02-13
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Health and Human Services

Employee hiring

Health care costs and insurance

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicaid

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of the rule titled&nbsp;<em>Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting</em>, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services on May 10, 2024.&nbsp;</p><p>Specifically, the bill prohibits administration, implementation, or enforcement of provisions that, among other changes, (1) establish minimum staffing standards for nurses in Medicare and Medicaid long-term care facilities, including requiring a nurse to be onsite 24/7 and requiring a minimum of 3.48 total nurse staffing hours per resident per day; and (2) require state Medicaid programs to report on payments to direct care workers and support staff of nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1303 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 13, 2025 Mrs. Fischbach (for herself, Mr. Carter of Georgia , Mrs. Houchin , Mr. Moran , Mr. Estes , Mr. Carey , Ms. Van Duyne , Mr. Johnson of South Dakota , Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania , Mr. Timmons , Mr. Finstad , Mr. Tiffany , Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania , Mr. Moolenaar , Mr. Pfluger , Mr. Murphy , Mrs. Miller of West Virginia , Mr. Rose , and Mr. Norman ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , 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 A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing, administering, or enforcing provisions relating to minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities and Medicaid institutional payment transparency reporting.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act . 2. Prohibition Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not implement, administer, or enforce the provisions of the final rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Federal Register on May 10, 2024, and titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting (89 Fed. Reg. 40876) or any substantially similar regulation.