YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityHospital patients likely eligible for hospice would get a list of local Medicare hospice programs at discharge.
Transparency & Accountability
- Hospital discharge disclosures — Hospitals must list Medicare hospice programs serving the patient's area
- Home health information — Discharge planning must name agencies for patients likely to need them
The details
Hospitals would have to hand patients more specific information when they leave. Medicare's discharge planning rules already require a hospital to discuss hospice and post-hospital care. This bill would make the hospice piece concrete. Patients likely eligible for hospice would get a list of hospice programs that take Medicare and serve their area. Patients likely to need home health care would similarly get a list of agencies serving them. The requirement would apply to hospital discharges on or after January 1, 2026. For families making end-of-life decisions under time pressure, it puts the local options in writing before they walk out the door.
Congressional Summary
End-of-life Access to Supportive and Essential care Act of 2025 or the EASE Act of 2025This bill requires hospitals to provide, as part of the hospital discharge process, patients who are eligible for hospice care under Medicare with information about providers of hospice care in their area.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-27
- Date Added
- 2026-07-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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