The Bill in the U. S. House of Representatives

The “Medicare Transitional Care Act” (H.R. 2773), sponsored by Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Charles Boustany (R-LA), has been introduced as in the House of Representatives to provide senior citizens with a new Medicare benefit.  

This important legislation is designed to eliminate the thousands of preventable hospital readmissions that occur each year by providing high quality transitional care to high-risk Medicare beneficiaries throughout episodes of acute illness. 

The bill is modeled on the Transitional Care Model, a research-based innovation designed and tested by a multidisciplinary team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing led by Dr. Mary Naylor (left).