Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2025
Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2025 - Plain Language Summary This bill would expand Medicare coverage for heart and lung rehabilitation programs by allowing more healthcare professionals to provide these services. Currently, these rehabilitation programs—which help patients recover after heart attacks or heart surgery through supervised exercise and education—are limited in who can deliver them. The bill would permit physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to run these programs in their own offices, create treatment plans, and prescribe exercise routines, rather than requiring a doctor to do so. The change would primarily affect Medicare patients recovering from cardiac events and the healthcare providers who treat them.
By allowing more types of qualified professionals to administer these programs, the bill aims to make rehabilitation services more accessible and available in more locations, potentially reducing wait times and travel burdens for patients. The bill is currently in committee and has not yet been voted on by the full House.
CRS Official Summary
Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2025This bill expands coverage of cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs under Medicare.Specifically, the bill allows physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to administer these programs in their offices, prepare and sign treatment plans, and prescribe exercise.
Latest Action
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.