Seniors Deserve SMARTER Care Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3480 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3480

      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
        implementing the WISeR model under the Medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2025

Mrs. Murray (for herself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. 
   Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Warren, Ms. 
Cantwell, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Smith, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. 
 Welch, Mr. Kim, Mr. Markey, and Mr. Gallego) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
        implementing the WISeR model under the Medicare program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seniors Deserve Streamlined Medical 
Approvals for Timely, Efficient Recovery Care Act of 2025'' or the 
``Seniors Deserve SMARTER Care Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WISER MODEL UNDER THE 
              MEDICARE PROGRAM.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not implement the 
innovative payment and service delivery model described in the notice 
titled ``Medicare Program; Implementation of Prior Authorization for 
Select Services for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction 
(WISeR) Model'' (90 Fed. Reg. 28749 (July 1, 2025)), or any 
substantially similar model.
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