No Patient Left Alone Act of 2025

The No Patient Left Alone Act of 2025 would amend Medicare law (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) to formally codify patients’ rights to visitation in hospitals and other Medicare-covered facilities. Specifically, it requires institutions to adopt written policies detailing patients’ visitation rights, including any clinically necessary restrictions and the reasons for those restrictions. The bill also obligates facilities to inform each patient about their visitation rights, including the right to designate visitors (such as a spouse, family member, or friend) and the right to withdraw or deny consent for designated visitors at any time. Importantly, the bill prohibits limiting visitation based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or disability and requires visitors to enjoy full and equal visitation privileges consistent with these protections. The legislation also makes a housekeeping change to adjust the statutory numbering to accommodate the new provision. In short, the bill seeks to ensure that patients have clear, non-discriminatory visitation rights and that hospitals formally document and communicate these rights, with certain clinically justified restrictions permitted only when explained.