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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7254 

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for infection 

control support to skilled nursing facilities through contracts with quality 

improvement organizations. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 18, 2020 

Mr. KIND (for himself, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. BURGESS, and Mr. UPTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 

and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 

for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 

for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 

committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 

for infection control support to skilled nursing facilities 

through contracts with quality improvement organizations. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Infection Control 

5 Training and Support Act of 2020’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROVIDING FOR INFECTION CONTROL SUPPORT TO 

2 SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES THROUGH 

3 CONTRACTS WITH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 

4 ORGANIZATIONS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1862(g) of the Social Se6 curity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395y(g)) is amended— 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘(1) The Secretary’’; and 

9 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

10 paragraph: 

11 ‘‘(2)(A) The Secretary shall ensure that at least 1 

12 contract with a quality improvement organization de13 scribed in paragraph (1) entered into on or after the date 

14 of the enactment of this paragraph and before the end 

15 of the emergency period described in section 

16 1135(g)(1)(B) (or in effect as of such date) includes the 

17 requirement that such organization provide to skilled 

18 nursing facilities with cases of COVID-19 (or facilities at19 tempting to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19) infection 

20 control support described in subparagraph (B) during 

21 such period. 

22 ‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the infection 

23 control support described in this subparagraph is, with re24 spect to skilled nursing facilities described in such sub25 paragraph, the development and dissemination to such fa26 cilities of protocols relating to the prevention or mitigation 


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1 of COVID-19 at such facilities and the provision of train2 ing materials to such facilities relating to such prevention 

3 or mitigation.’’. 

4 (b) FUNDING.—The Secretary of Health and Human 

5 Services shall provide for the transfer from the Federal 

6 Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (as de7 scribed in section 1841 of the Social Security Act (42 

8 U.S.C. 1395t)) and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 

9 Fund (as described in section 1817 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 

10 1395i)), in such proportions as determined appropriate by 

11 the Secretary, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

12 Services Program Management Account, of $210,000,000, 

13 to remain available until expended, for purposes of enter14 ing into contracts with quality improvement organizations 

15 under part B of title XI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1320c 

16 et seq.). Of the amount transferred pursuant to the pre17 vious sentence, not less that $110,000,000 shall be used 

18 for purposes of entering into such a contract that includes 

19 the requirement described in section 1862(g)(2)(A) of 

20 such Act (as added by subsection (a)). 

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