Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Diagnostic Accuracy in Sepsis Act of 2025.
Section 2. Including blood contamination as a hospital acquired condition under the Medicare program
Section 1886(p) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1305ww(p)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by striking means a condition and inserting the following:
(A) means—
(A) a condition
(B) by striking subsection (d)(4)(D)(iv) and any and inserting the following:
(B) subsection (d)(4)(D)(iv);
(C) any
(B) ; and
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph:
(B) with respect to discharges occurring during fiscal year 2026 or a subsequent fiscal year, blood culture contamination; and
(2) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (8); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph:
(7) Blood culture contamination measure
In establishing a measure for blood culture contamination for a subsection (d) hospital for purposes of determining whether such hospital is an applicable hospital under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall so establish such a measure on the basis that the rate of such contamination should not exceed 1 percent.