Title: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to promote testing of incentive payments for behavioral health providers for adoption and use of certified electronic health record technology.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to specify that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation may test models to provide incentive payments to behavioral health providers for: (1) adopting electronic health records technology, and (2) using that technology to improve the quality and coordination of care.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3331 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3331

  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to promote testing of 
incentive payments for behavioral health providers for adoption and use 
           of certified electronic health record technology.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2017

   Ms. Jenkins of Kansas (for herself and Ms. Matsui) 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to promote testing of 
incentive payments for behavioral health providers for adoption and use 
           of certified electronic health record technology.

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

SECTION 1. TESTING OF INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 
              PROVIDERS FOR ADOPTION AND USE OF CERTIFIED ELECTRONIC 
              HEALTH RECORD TECHNOLOGY.

    Section 1115A(b)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1315a(b)(2)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause:
                            ``(xxv) Providing incentive payments to 
                        behavioral health providers, such as a public 
                        or private hospital that is principally a 
                        psychiatric hospital (as defined in section 
                        1861(f)), a community mental health center (as 
                        described in section 1913(b)(2) of the Public 
                        Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-2(b)(2))), 
                        an accredited residential or outpatient mental 
                        health treatment facility, an accredited 
                        substance abuse treatment facility, a clinical 
                        psychologist (as defined in section 1861(ii)), 
                        and a clinical social worker (as defined in 
                        section 1861(hh)(1)), for adopting certified 
                        EHR technology (as defined in section 
                        1848(o)(4)) and using such technology to 
                        improve the quality and coordination of care 
                        through the electronic exchange of health 
                        information.''.
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