United States S 3267: ASAP Act

Bill Text

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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.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
NOVEMBER 20, 2025
Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mrs. CAPITO, and Mr. WAR-
NER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Finance
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Alzheimer’s Screening 4
and Prevention Act’’ or the ‘‘ASAP Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. MEDICARE COVERAGE OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE 1
AND RELATED DEMENTIAS EARLY DETEC-2
TION SCREENING TESTS. 3
(a) COVERAGE.—Section 1861 of the Social Security 4
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x) is amended— 5
(1) in subsection (s)(2)— 6
(A) in subparagraph (JJ), by striking the 7
semicolon at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 8
(B) by adding at the end the following new 9
subparagraph: 10
‘‘(KK) Alzheimer’s disease and related demen-11
tias early detection screening tests (as defined in 12
subsection (nnn));’’ and 13
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-14
section: 15
‘‘(nnn) ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DE-16
MENTIAS EARLY DETECTION SCREENING TESTS.—The 17
term ‘Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias early de-18
tection screening test’ means a test furnished to an indi-19
vidual for the detection of the pre-symptomatic and early 20
stage of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias on or 21
after January 1, 2028, that— 22
‘‘(1) is cleared under section 510(k), classified 23
under section 513(f)(2), or approved under section 24
515 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; 25
and 26
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‘‘(2) is— 1
‘‘(A) a genomic sequencing blood or blood 2
product test; or 3
‘‘(B) such other equivalent test, including 4
a single-analyte test, blood test analysis of cell- 5
free nucleic acids, multiplex panel test, whole 6
genome sequencing, protein expression, whole 7
exome, whole transcriptome, and medical imag-8
ing (which are based on blood, blood products, 9
tissue, urine or other biospecimen), as the Sec-10
retary determines appropriate in providing re-11
sults comparable to those obtained with a test 12
described in subparagraph (A).’’. 13
(b) PAYMENT.—Section 1833(h)(1)(A) of the Social 14
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(h)(1)(A)) is amended by 15
inserting ‘‘Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias early 16
detection screening tests under section 1861(nnn) and’’ 17
after ‘‘including’’. 18
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