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Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish requirements with respect to the use of prior authorization under Medicare Advantage plans.
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- Passed Senate
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- Became law
Summary
Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
This bill establishes several requirements and standards relating to prior authorization processes under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
Specifically, MA plans must (1) establish an electronic prior authorization program that meets specified standards; (2) annually submit to the CMS for publication specified prior authorization information, including the percentage of requests approved and the average response time; and (3) meet other standards, as set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), relating to the quality and timeliness of prior authorization determinations.
The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology must publish on the CMS' website a report that analyzes the information received from MA plans, the feasibility of implementing real-time decision making with respect to prior authorization requests, and the impact of decisions that are made using artificial intelligence on patient access.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Jul 15, 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
- Jul 15, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 25, 2026 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
- Jun 25, 2026 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- May 20, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 20, 2025 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.
- May 20, 2025 Introduced in House
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