This chart includes current policy and legislative opportunities at the federal level.
| Year Introduced | Issue | Type (Letter, Regulation Comments, Legislation) | Bill Number & Title | Description | Position Statements & Coalition and Triage Cancer Letter of Support | Status | Advocacy Opportunity | |||
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2025
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Paid Family Leave | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7165 | H.R.7165 - Credit for Caring Act of 2024 | Letter urging Congress to include the Credit for Caring Act of 2024 (118th Congress) in legislation in the next Congress (119th). | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Financial-Relief-for-Family-Caregivers-Credit-for-Caring-Act-Sign-on-Letter-January-2025.pdf | House - 01/31/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Access to Care | Letter | https://familiesusa.org/our-work/medicaid/ | Support for Medicaid Funding | Coalition letter in support of full funding for Medicaid | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FUSA-01-03-Medicaid-Sign-On-Final_updated-01-06-25.pdf | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Research and development | Letter | https://www.fightcancer.org/policy-resources/request-regulatory-safe-harbor-aks-financial-support-cancer-clinical-trial | Safe harbor to the federal health care program anti-kickback statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b) (“AKS”). | Letter to the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) in support of the regulatory safe harbor to the federal health care program anti-kickback statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b) (“AKS”) | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ACS-CAN_-2025-Safe-Harbor-Proposal-27Jan25_Submitted.pdf | Public comment closed 1/27/25 | Not at This Time | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/27/2024-27710/solicitation-of-proposals-for-new-and-modified-safe-harbors-and-special-fraud-alerts |
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2025
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Access to Care | Letter | Letter urging the House & Senate to exclude Medicaid cuts, work requirements, or any changes that limit funding or eligibility, from budget reconciliation or other legislation. | Oppose | https://triagecancer.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/05090757/No-Medicaid-Cuts-or-Changes-Letter.pdf | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation oppose cuts to Medicaid. | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |||
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2025
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Research and development | Letter | https://appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hearings/labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-public-witness-day | Support for NIH Funding | Letter requesting that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) receive no less than $51.303 billion, in addition to support for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FY26-NIH-Funding-Rec.pdf | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Medicare | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/842 | H.R. 842 / S.339 - Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act | This Act would allow Medicare to cover multi-cancer early detection screenings, once approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and clinical benefit has been shown. This bill is reintroduced from 2024, during which it was the most supported bi-cameral and bi-partisan health care legislation. | Support | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means (1/31/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Access to Care | Letter | https://act.communitycatalyst.org/a/protect-medicaid-now | Support for Medicaid Funding | Coalition letter urging policymakers committed to reducing medical debt and improving economic security to oppose any cuts to Medicaid. | Oppose | https://triagecancer.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/05084843/Medicaid-Medical-Debt-Sign-On-Letter.pdf | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose cuts to Medicaid | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Essential Health Benefits | Letter | Close EHB Pharmaceutical Loophole | Letter urging the Secretary of Labor to issue a previously promised regulation that would prevent insurers from designating certain covered drugs as “non-essential,” evading cost-sharing protections for patients. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/EHB-Loophole-Letter.pdf | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to support this regulation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Research and development | Letter | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FY25-KCRP-Funding-Cuts-Sign-on-Letter.pdf | Support for Kidney Cancer Research | Stakeholder letter to protect funding for the Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) - the only dedicated federal funding stream for kidney cancer research within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) - from being eliminated. | Support | Budget awaiting enactment | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1300 | H.R.1300 / S.297 - PSA Screening for HIM Act | Coalition letter to support this Act in both the House and Senate, which would require health insurance providers to offer prostate cancer screenings without any cost-sharing requirements for high-risk men over the age of 40. | Support | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2/13/2025) / referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1/29/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Research and development | Letter | Budget Proposing Cuts to HHS | Coalition letter urging policymakers to reject the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services' 2026 budget that were included in a draft budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026. | Oppose | https://triagecancer.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29095205/FY26-Proposed-HHS-Cuts-Letter.pdf | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1509/text | H.R.1509 - Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act of 2025 | This bill requires states to allow out-of-state providers to enroll in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) without the imposition of screening or enrollment requirements that exceed the minimum necessary for such state to provide payment to such providers. | Support | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2/21/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Medicare | Letter | Not Answered | MPPP Reporting and Transparency | Coalition letter calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide quarterly reporting and improved transparency for the implementation of the Medicare Premium Payment Program and progress of expanding beneficiary enrollment capabilities and outreach. | Support | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Clinical Trials | Legislation | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pqNkinLgl9by1o69fwn_cknBnK4iFhh4/view | Pathfinder Act | The Pathfinder Act proposes amendments to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to make it easier and financially beneficial for individuals to participate in clinical trials by providing tax exemptions for clinical trial payments and a refundable tax credit for clinical trial participants, ultimately supporting medical research and development. | Support | Not Yet Introduced | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Research and development | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3152 | H.R.3152 / S.1546 - Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 | This bill would overturn years of Supreme Court precedent and once again allow patents on all biomarkers, including DNA, and their association with health status, reducing innovation and increasing the costs of important genetic tests. | Oppose | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary (5/1/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2381/text/ih | H.R.2381/S.1866 - SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2025 | This Act would reauthorize the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) which provides public education, outreach, patient navigation, and care coordination to increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates and reach people in rural and urban communities alike. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-SCREENS-Act-Letter-of-Support.pdf | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (3/26/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1500/text/is | S.1500 - Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act of 2025 | Act would require private insurance plans to cover diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging without any patient cost-sharing, ensuring that patients do not face out-of-pocket costs for essential follow-up imaging such as MRIs, ultrasounds and diagnostic mammograms. | Support | Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (4/28/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
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2025
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Access to Care | Budget | https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf | Presidential recommendations on discretionary funding levels for fiscal year (FY) 2026 | The President's recently released FY26 discretionary budget proposal eliminated the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC), which includes cancer registries, the comprehensive cancer control program that sends money to state health departments, awareness campaigns, and cancer education and awareness efforts, alongside cancer screening programs. | Oppose | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Protect-DCPC-Final-Letter.pdf | Budget awaiting enactment | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Medicare | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3514/text | H.R. 3514 / S. 1816 - Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act | This bill would establish a standardized electronic prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans,increase transparency around MA prior authorization requirements and their use, and allow CMS to establish timeframes for e-PA requests. | Support | https://docs.google.com/document/d/19OqthcWUvWTjWqefB6WaRHIK-KlqDpad_NjRc5kwnl0/edit?tab=t.0 | Introduced on May 20, 2025 | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Research and development | Letter | Not Answered | Proposed Cuts to NIH Funding | Coalition letter urging legislators to reject cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding proposed in the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) budget request. | Oppose | https://www.researchamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NIH-Sign-On-Letter-June-2025-with-Signatories.pdf?sm_guid=ODY5NTUwfDgyMjM0NDkzfC0xfGpkQHRyaWFnZWNhbmNlci5vcmd8Nzk5MTg1NXx8MHwwfDI2NTE3Nzc2MHw5NTN8MHwwfHw4NjUzNDh8MA2 | Budget awaiting enactment | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Medicare | Letter | Not Answered | Improve Transparency and Education for Medicare Part D Utilization Management | Coalition letter asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase transparency around plans’ use of utilization management (UM) and enhance Part D enrollees' education about how their care may be affected by UM tools. | Support | Not Yet Introduced | Not Answered | Not Answered | |
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2025
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Insurance Coverage | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text | H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act | This wide-range reconciliation bill proposes, among other things, cuts and changes to Medicaid and the Affordable CareAct (ACA) that would result in at least 10.9 million people becoming uninsured. | Oppose | https://www.c-c-d.org/fichiers/Senate-Aging-Disability-Letter-from-1100-Organizations-on-Medicaid-and-FY25-Reconciliation-Bill.pdf | Passed House, awaiting Senate review | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
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2025
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Insurance Coverage | Legislation | https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text | H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act | This bill would, among many other things, result in coverage losses for approximately 11 million people by 2034, with more than 7.8 million of those individuals losing Medicaid coverage according to the Congressional Budget Office. | Oppose | https://modernmedicaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/MMA-Letter-to-Senate-Leadership-June-2025_final.pdf | Passed House, awaiting Senate review | Contact your representative to ask them to oppose this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |