S. 5018 aims to amend the Social Security Act to strengthen the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. The bill seeks to prevent health insurance plans from transferring the primary responsibility of covering healthcare costs for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to...
Simple Explanation
Medicare wants to make sure that people's regular health insurance, not Medicare, pays for their kidney illness costs first. This bill tries to stop health insurances from ignoring their job by making Medicare pay and ensures that they treat all patients with kidney problems fairly.