Medicare IVIG Access Enhancement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1143
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2025-02-07
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Medicare

Neurological disorders
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-07
text: 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Medicare IVIG Access Enhancement Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill provides for Medicare coverage of in-home administration of intravenous immune globulin to treat chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) or multifocal motor neuropathy. (CIDP is an autoimmune condition that causes symptoms such as muscle weakness and numbness; multifocal motor neuropathy is a variant of CIDP that only causes asymmetric muscle weakness.)</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1143 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 7, 2025 Mr. Smith of Nebraska (for himself and Mr. Garamendi ) introduced the following bill; which was 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 A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand coverage of the in-home administration of intravenous immune globulin under the Medicare program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare IVIG Access Enhancement Act of 2025 . 2. Expanding coverage of the in-home administration of intravenous immune globulin under the Medicare program (a) In general Section 1861 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x ) is amended— (1) in subsection (s)(2)(Z), by inserting (and, beginning January 1, 2027, for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and multifocal motor neuropathy) after primary immune deficiency diseases ; and (2) in subsection (zz), by inserting (or, beginning January 1, 2027, with diagnosed chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and multifocal motor neuropathy) after primary immune deficiency disease . (b) Authority for variance in payments Section 1842(o)(8) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395u(o)(8) ) is amended by inserting and may vary depending on whether such administration is related to treatment of a primary immune deficiency disease or the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or multifocal motor neuropathy (as determined appropriate by the Secretary through notice and comment rulemaking) after of 2012 .