The Alleviating Barriers for Caregivers Act directs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration to review and simplify how family caregivers interact with Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and Social Security programs. The bill aims to reduce duplicate paperwork and forms, improve website accessibility and design, decrease call wait times, provide translation services, and ensure agency staff are better trained to help family caregivers navigate these programs. Within one year of the bill's enactment, both agencies must submit reports to Congress detailing what problems they found, what actions they're taking to fix them, estimated completion timelines, and projected costs for implementation. The bill also requires the Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid to encourage states to conduct similar reviews of their own Medicaid and CHIP programs and share best practices for reducing administrative burdens on family caregivers. No specific funding is authorized in the bill; it focuses on internal administrative reforms to simplify existing processes.
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