Contact Congress about S. 1264: Mental and Physical Health Care Comorbidities Act of 2025

Some hospitals could get Medicare money to test care that treats mental and physical health needs together. The program would focus on low-income patients, Medicaid patients, and uninsured people in high-need communities.

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Mental and Physical Health Care Comorbidities Act of 2025 is a Senate bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Latest action on S. 1264: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects people with serious health needs who get care from hospitals that serve many low-income patients. It could also affect hospitals that want to test new care models, community groups that provide social services, and public programs that pay for health care or other services. Patients may see more coordinated care, but only if their hospital joins the test and designs a program that reaches them.

Why this matters: People with mental health needs and physical illnesses often have to deal with separate doctors, separate systems, and gaps in care. This bill would test whether hospitals can do better by joining those services together and addressing social needs that affect health. If the test works, it could guide future Medicare or Medicaid payment rules. If the results are mixed, Congress would still get data on what helped, what cost money, and what was hard to scale.

Key provisions in S. 1264

• Medicare would test care for people with mental and physical health needs at the same time. The test would focus on low-income Medicare patients, Medicaid patients, and uninsured people.
• Only certain hospitals could join. These include some rural hospitals, large teaching and specialty hospitals with many low-income patients, and small urban safety-net hospitals.
• Each hospital would have to send in a detailed plan. The plan must name its quality measures, target patients, proof that the community is high-need, and community partners.
• Hospital plans must explain how the project would handle several issues. These include combined mental and physical health needs, social needs that affect health, minority health, total health costs, and other public costs.
• The Secretary of Health and Human Services could negotiate yearly payments with each hospital. Payments could be lump sums, fixed per-person amounts, or models where hospitals take on some financial risk.

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Questions people ask about S. 1264

What is S. 1264?

Some hospitals could get Medicare money to test care that treats mental and physical health needs together. The program would focus on low-income patients, Medicaid patients, and uninsured people in high-need communities.

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