Support and advance legislation to reduce emergency department overcrowding by expanding public health data grants for real-time hospital bed tracking, requiring a GAO study on hospital capacity data systems, and authorizing CMS Innovation Center pilot programs for patients likely to experience emergency department boarding.

U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) and David McCormick (R-Pa.) introduced the Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department (ABC-ED) Act, bipartisan legislation to help alleviate emergency department overcrowding by improving the efficiency of emergency care to deliver better health outcomes. ... Specifically, the ABC-ED Act would: Expand public health data grants to support hospital bed tracking systems; Direct the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study to determine best practices for the development and maintenance of public health data systems for tracking hospital capacity; Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center to pilot improved care programs for patients most likely to experience ED boarding, including seniors and those with acute psychiatric needs.

McCormick introduced bipartisan legislation intended to reduce emergency department overcrowding through hospital bed tracking data systems, a GAO best-practices study, and CMS pilot programs for high-risk ED boarding patients.

Senators Coons, McCormick introduce legislation to reduce overcrowded emergency departments
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Senator David McCormick; In Congress 2025 - Present; Party Republican; Senate Pennsylvania 119th (2025-Present). Member Activity: Sponsored Legislation [38], Cosponsored Legislation (All) [163].

Congress.gov confirms the relevant federal service term and provides the official activity set for McCormick's sponsored and cosponsored legislation in the 119th Congress. The listed official activity does not show delivery of the specific ED overcrowding package.

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Senator David McCormick | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Status of Legislation: Became Law [3]. Subject - Policy Area: Health [10]. Senate Committee: Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [12].

The official member activity page identifies only three McCormick-related items that became law and ten Health-policy items. Searches of the activity page did not identify the key promised provisions: hospital bed tracking, ED boarding, CMS Innovation Center pilots, or GAO hospital capacity data systems.

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Senator David McCormick | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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No matching text found for "hospital". No matching text found for "CMS". No matching text found for "bed". No matching text found for "boarding".

Keyword checks against the official Congress.gov activity page found no matches for core terms that would normally appear in legislation implementing the promise.

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Senator David McCormick | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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S.1974 — ABC-ED Act of 2025; Sponsor: Coons; Committees: Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Latest Action: Read twice and referred.

One health/HELP item in McCormick's activity is unrelated to emergency department overcrowding and remained only introduced/referred, not enacted. This does not deliver the promised hospital capacity data, GAO study, or CMS pilot provisions.

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Senator David McCormick | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Type: Sponsored legislation Cosponsored legislation. 06-25-2026 S.4930; 06-25-2026 S.4904; 06-24-2026 S.4686; 06-23-2026 S.4633.

McCormick's official Senate legislation page lists recent sponsored legislation through June 25, 2026, but the visible official list and page text do not identify an ED overcrowding, hospital bed tracking, GAO hospital capacity, or CMS Innovation Center pilot bill.

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Legislation - U.S. Senator Dave McCormick
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