Title: V-BID for Better Care Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Value-Based Insurance Design for Better Care Act of 2017 or the V-BID for Better Care Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to expand testing of a model of Medicare Advantage (MA) value-based insurance design that allows MA plans to propose and design benefit structures that vary benefits, cost-sharing, and supplemental benefits with respect to enrollees who have specific chronic diseases. The test model (initially being carried out in specified states) shall be expanded to all states, and may not be terminated prior to 2022.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1995 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1995

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for national 
 testing of a model of Medicare Advantage value-based insurance design 
   to meet the needs of chronically ill Medicare Advantage enrollees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

  Mrs. Black (for herself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, and 
Mrs. Dingell) 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for national 
 testing of a model of Medicare Advantage value-based insurance design 
   to meet the needs of chronically ill Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Value-Based Insurance Design for 
Better Care Act of 2017'' or the ``V-BID for Better Care Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ADAPTING BENEFITS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF CHRONICALLY ILL MEDICARE 
              ADVANTAGE ENROLLEES.

    Section 1859 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-28) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) National Testing of Model for Medicare Advantage Value-Based 
Insurance Design.--
            ``(1) In general.--In implementing the model described in 
        paragraph (2) proposed to be tested under section 1115A(b), the 
        Secretary shall revise the testing of the model under such 
        section to cover, effective not later than January 1, 2019, all 
        States.
            ``(2) Model described.--The model described in this 
        paragraph is the testing of a model of Medicare Advantage 
        value-based insurance design that would allow Medicare 
        Advantage plans the option to propose and design benefit 
        structures that vary benefits, cost-sharing, and supplemental 
        benefits offered to enrollees with specific chronic diseases 
        proposed to be carried out in Oregon, Arizona, Texas, Iowa, 
        Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and 
        Massachusetts.
            ``(3) Termination and modification provision not applicable 
        until january 1, 2022.--The provisions of section 
        1115A(b)(3)(B) shall apply to the model described in paragraph 
        (2), including such model as expanded under paragraph (1), 
        beginning January 1, 2022, but shall not apply to such model, 
        as so expanded, prior to such date.
            ``(4) Funding.--The Secretary shall allocate funds made 
        available under section 1115A(f)(1) to design, implement, and 
        evaluate the model described in paragraph (2), as expanded 
        under paragraph (1).''.
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