This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support research and to create evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies to increase early detection of and intervention for uterine fibroids. HHS is asked to finalize those strategies quickly so they can be used by grant recipients. The Secretary may award grants to States to run programs that increase early detection and intervention and to run public awareness and education campaigns. States may use grant funds for screening (including advanced gynecological imaging and payment for those services), patient navigation services, adopting the evidence-based strategies, and helping people reach health care settings. The Secretary is to give priority to states that plan programs in areas with socially vulnerable populations at higher risk. The Secretary may also award grants for research, including clinical trials, on disparities in pain control and management in uterine fibroid surgical treatment and on Asherman's Syndrome, intrauterine adhesions, and other intrauterine conditions. HHS must report to Congress and make public reports on grant program findings every two years after the first awards and must report on research developments every two years.
If HHS awards grants under this bill, some states could get money to expand fibroid screening, imaging, navigation help, and public education. People in areas identified as socially vulnerable could be prioritized for these programs. The bill does not itself require health providers to change care; it funds research and voluntary state programs and public education.
No publicly available information on funding amounts or authorized appropriations is included in the bill text. Any costs would depend on future appropriations to HHS and on the number and scale of grants the Secretary chooses to award.
The bill focuses on research, evidence-based strategies, grants, and public education to increase early detection and intervention for uterine fibroids and to study related disparities and intrauterine conditions. The sponsors frame these activities as the means to improve early detection and care.
No publicly available information on opponents' views is included in the bill text.