S 575referred119th Congress

I CAN Act

Introduced Feb 13, 2025Senate billPolicy area: HealthLast action Feb 13, 2025Sponsor: Jeff Merkley(D-OR)

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Finance Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Feb 13, 2025

What the bill does

Improving Care and Access to Nurses Act or the I CAN Act This bill allows other health care providers besides physicians (e.g., nurses) to provide certain services under Medicare and Medicaid. Among other changes, the bill (1) allows a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to fulfill documentation requirements for Medicare coverage of special shoes for diabetic individuals; (2) expedites the ability of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise Medicare cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs; and (3) allows nurse practitioners to certify the need for inpatient hospital services under Medicare and Medicaid.

Latest official action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$10.9M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Feb 13, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AARP

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by KROGER CO

Jul 17, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

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Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Finance Committee

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AARP	AARP	$6.6M	Apr 18, 2025	2025Q1	HCRMMMAGR
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS	$540.0K	Jul 17, 2025	2025Q2	HCRVETMMM
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.