{"id":23965,"date":"2025-02-04T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:00:48","slug":"finance-committee-members-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ensure-medicare-patients-access-to-cancer-detection-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23965","title":{"rendered":"Finance Committee Members Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ensure Medicare Patients\u2019 Access to Cancer Detection Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Washington, D.C.–U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Finance Committee member Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), with Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Finance Committee member Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), reintroduced the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) Screening Coverage Act that would ensure Medicare beneficiaries\u2019 access to cutting-edge tests capable of detecting multiple types of cancer before symptoms appear. Bipartisan companion legislation (H.R. 842) was also introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source – www.finance.senate.gov) Washington, D.C.–U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Finance Committee member Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,10,14,6],"tags":[1681,80,238,174,61,94],"class_list":["post-23965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general","tag-cancer-detection-technologies","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-legislation","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23966,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions\/23966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}