Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Keeping Individuals with Dialysis Needs Equipped through Year-round Remote Monitoring Act” or the “KIDNEY Remote Monitoring Act”.
Keeping Individuals with Dialysis Needs Equipped through Year-round Remote Monitoring Act
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand certain remote monitoring services furnished by physicians to individuals with end stage renal disease under the Medicare program.
Sec. 2 Expanding certain remote monitoring services furnished by physicians to individuals with end stage renal disease
Section 1881(b)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395rr(b)(3)) is amended—
in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking “subparagraph (B)” and inserting “subparagraphs (B) and (C)”; and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
“(C) For purposes of subparagraph (A), payment for remote physiologic monitoring services furnished by a physician on or after January 1, 2028, to an individual determined to have end stage renal disease receiving home dialysis shall be made on the basis described in section 1848.”