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H.R. 2517: Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer’s Act

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H.R. 2517: Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer’s Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-04-14 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-04-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer’s Act

Plain summary

Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer's Act This bill allows the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a Dementia Care Management Model that provides comprehensive care to Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. Under the model, participating health care providers receive payment under Medicare for comprehensive care management services that are provided to individuals with diagnosed dementia, excluding Medicare Advantage enrollees, hospice care recipients, and nursing home residents. Required services include medication management, care coordination, and health, financial, and environmental monitoring, as well as trainings and other support services for unpaid caregivers. Providers must furnish services through interdisciplinary teams and must ensure access to a team member or primary care provider 24-7. The CMMI must set payments and determine quality measures for the model in accordance with specified requirements. The bill also allows the CMMI to design a similar model under Medicaid.

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Official text

Comprehensive Care for Alzheimer’s Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26] · 134 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Darin LaHood (R-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Tom Cole (R-OK), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Mike Rogers (R-AL), Ed Case (D-HI), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Don Bacon (R-NE), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mike Bost (R-IL), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Neal P. Dunn (R-FL), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Young Kim (R-CA), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), J. French Hill (R-AR), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Tim Burchett (R-TN), John H. Rutherford (R-FL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR), Sean Casten (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL) and 74 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2517 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117