LOVE Act

This legislation proposes an 8-year Medicare demonstration program to support living kidney donation by funding facilitator training. The Secretary of Health and Human Services would establish this program, providing payments to eligible hospitals for operating living kidney donor transplant facilitator training programs . These training programs are designed to equip individuals to assist Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease in identifying potential living kidney donors and navigating the complex donation process. The primary objective is to increase the number of living kidney donations and subsequent transplants, which could lead to Medicare cost savings by reducing reliance on dialysis services. The bill mandates comprehensive reporting to Congress, with an initial report due after six years and subsequent annual updates. These reports will assess the program's impact on the number of living donors and transplants, recipient outcomes, and any attributable cost savings to the Medicare program.