ASAP Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3267 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3267

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of blood-based dementia screening tests.

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

November 20, 2025

Ms. Collins (for herself, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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A BILL

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of blood-based dementia screening tests.

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 ``Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention Act'' or the ``ASAP Act''.

SEC. 2. MEDICARE COVERAGE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS EARLY DETECTION SCREENING TESTS.

(a) Coverage.--Section 1861 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x) is amended-- (1) in subsection (s)(2)-- (A) in subparagraph (JJ), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting ``; and''; and (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(KK) Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening tests (as defined in subsection (nnn));'' and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(nnn) Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Early Detection Screening Tests.--The term `Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening test' means a test furnished to an individual for the detection of the pre-symptomatic and early stage of Alzheimer's disease or related dementias on or after January 1, 2028, that-- ``(1) is cleared under section 510(k), classified under section 513(f)(2), or approved under section 515 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and ``(2) is-- ``(A) a genomic sequencing blood or blood product test; or ``(B) such other equivalent test, including a single-analyte test, blood test analysis of cell-free nucleic acids, multiplex panel test, whole genome sequencing, protein expression, whole exome, whole transcriptome, and medical imaging (which are based on blood, blood products, tissue, urine or other biospecimen), as the Secretary determines appropriate in providing results comparable to those obtained with a test described in subparagraph (A).''. (b) Payment.--Section 1833(h)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(h)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ``Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening tests under section 1861(nnn) and'' after ``including''. <all>