LOVE Act

Medicare help to find living donors

This bill would create an 8-year Medicare demonstration to train hospital staff as living kidney donor facilitators. The Secretary would must set up the program within 180 days of enactment. Hospitals that perform kidney transplants would be paid each year an amount equal to the reasonable costs of running the training, as determined by the Secretary. Trained facilitators would help Medicare Part A and B patients with end-stage renal disease identify potential living donors and navigate the donation process. The Secretary could waive parts of Medicare law as needed to run the demonstration. The Secretary would report to specified congressional committees six years after enactment on donor and transplant counts, recipient outcomes, Medicare cost savings, and qualitative interviews, and would submit updates one year later and each of the next two years.