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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9011 

To provide funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide 

grants to entities to establish lung cancer screening registries approved 

by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for submission of 

certain data required for reimbursement under the Medicare program 

for certain screening services, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 17, 2020 

Mr. HIGGINS of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 provide funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services to provide grants to entities to establish lung 

cancer screening registries approved by the Centers for 

Medicare & Medicaid Services for submission of certain 

data required for reimbursement under the Medicare program for certain screening services, and for other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. GRANTS TO ESTABLISH LUNG CANCER 

2 SCREENING REGISTRIES APPROVED BY THE 

3 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERV4 ICES FOR SUBMISSION OF CERTAIN DATA RE5 QUIRED FOR REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE 

6 MEDICARE PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN SCREEN7 ING SERVICES. 

8 (a) GRANTS.—There is appropriated to the Centers 

9 for Medicare & Medicaid Services, out of any moneys in 

10 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000 for 

11 each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 to make grants 

12 to entities to establish and carry out registries that are 

13 approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 

14 as meeting the requirements described in the Final Na15 tional Coverage Determination on Screening for Lung 

16 Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography published 

17 on February 5, 2015. 

18 (b) LIMITATION.—As a condition of receiving a grant 

19 pursuant to subsection (a), with respect to a registry de20 scribed in such subsection, an entity may not charge any 

21 fee for access to such registry. 

22 SEC. 2. ENCOURAGING DATA INTEROPERABILITY AMONG 

23 LUNG CANCER SCREENING REGISTRIES. 

24 The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 

25 take such actions as may be necessary to ensure data 

26 interoperability between all registries described in section 


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1 1(a) (including such registries established using funds pro2 vided under such section, interoperability between all 

3 CMS-approved lung cancer screening registries), including 

4 by— 

5 (1) requiring interoperability as a condition of 

6 receiving any Federal funding for such a registry; 

7 and 

8 (2) revoking any such funding for such a reg9 istry if the registry is not interoperable with other 

10 such registries. 

11 SEC. 3. GRANTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUNG CANCER 

12 SCREENING, DETECTION, AND PREVENTION 

13 QUALITY MEASURES. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec15 retary of Health and Human Services shall award com16 petitive grants to organizations with quality measure de17 velopment expertise to develop, using data contained in 

18 registries described in section 1(a) (including such a reg19 istry established using funds provided under such section), 

20 quality and efficiency measures described in subsection (b) 

21 for review and potential endorsement by a consensus22 based entity with a contract in effect under section 1890 

23 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395aaa) for uses 

24 including as described in subsection (b)(7)(B) of such sec25 tion. 


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1 (b) QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY MEASURES DE2 SCRIBED.—For purposes of subsection (a), quality and ef3 ficiency measures described in this subsection are quality 

4 and efficiency measures to improve health care efficiency 

5 and outcomes with respect to lung cancer screening prac6 tices, early detection of lung cancer, and lung cancer pre7 vention. 

8 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

9 authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a) 

10 $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 

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