Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2025
Current understanding
The Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2025 (introduced) would prohibit federal and federally funded health programs — including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and related coverage vehicles — from using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or similar measures that discount the value of life based on disability, age, or terminal illness when making coverage, reimbursement, or incentive determinations. The bill also rescinds appropriations to the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2025-06-10 — Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2025: cross-connection with rocr-value-based-program-act: Both bills touch value-based payment methodology in federal programs; the QALY prohibition would constrain the types of value metrics that alternative payment models like ROCR could rely on for coverage/incentive design. (novelty: 3)