This bill creates a sepsis team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The team would lead a national education campaign on hospital sepsis best practices, improve data collection on pediatric sepsis, share information with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help develop sepsis quality measures, update sepsis data elements used in health data standards, and coordinate sepsis outcome measures across Health and Human Services. The bill requires a report within 1 year on developing outcome measures for adult and pediatric sepsis that consider social and clinical risk factors. It also requires annual briefings to two congressional committees on hospital adoption of sepsis practices, pediatric sepsis rates and reduction efforts, HHS coordination, evaluation of CDC core sepsis program elements with AHRQ, data sharing, and recent sepsis datasets. The bill allows a voluntary hospital "honor roll" to recognize hospitals that maintain or improve sepsis programs. It authorizes $20,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the section.
The bill authorizes $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the sepsis section. No publicly available information on other costs or expected savings is provided in the bill text.
The bill's findings state that about 1,700,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis each year and about 350,000 die from sepsis annually. Supporters in the bill text say there is a need for more federal investment in sepsis research, better pediatric sepsis data, stronger infectious disease workforce support, and wider use of proven hospital sepsis protocols (noting New York State "Rory's Regulations") to prevent deaths with earlier recognition and treatment.
No publicly available information on opponents' views is included in the bill text or provided materials.