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MCED Legislation as Passed the House

January 23, 2026

On Thursday, January 23, 2026, the House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, which included the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act. This fact sheet compares the legislation as introduced in the 118th Congress to what was passed as part of the appropriations bill. 

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MCED Legislative Comparison

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The following chart is a section-by-section summary of the MCED legislation, comparing the legislation introduced in the 118th Congress with the version introduced in the 119th Congress.

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