Title: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require States to annually report on certain adult health quality measures, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand its core set of adult health quality measures for Medicaid-eligible adults to include measures specific to behavioral health. A state Medicaid program must report annually on such measures.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5583 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5583

   To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require States to 
annually report on certain adult health quality measures, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2018

    Ms. Clarke of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require States to 
annually report on certain adult health quality measures, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. MANDATORY REPORTING WITH RESPECT TO ADULT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 
              MEASURES.

    Section 1139B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-9b) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking ``Not later than January 1, 
                        2013'' and inserting the following:
                    ``(A) Voluntary reporting.--Not later than January 
                1, 2013''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Mandatory reporting with respect to 
                behavioral health measures.--Beginning with the State 
                report required under subsection (d)(1) for 2024, the 
                Secretary shall require States to use all behavioral 
                health measures included in the core set of adult 
                health quality measures and any updates or changes to 
                such measures to report information, using the 
                standardized format for reporting information and 
                procedures developed under subparagraph (A), regarding 
                the quality of behavioral health care for Medicaid 
                eligible adults.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5), by adding at the end the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Behavioral health measures.--Beginning with 
                respect to State reports required under subsection 
                (d)(1) for 2024, the core set of adult health quality 
                measures maintained under this paragraph (and any 
                updates or changes to such measures) shall include 
                behavioral health measures.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(1)(A)--
                    (A) by striking ``the such plan'' and inserting 
                ``such plan''; and
                    (B) by striking ``subsection (a)(5)'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (b)(5) and, beginning with the report for 
                2024, all behavioral health measures included in the 
                core set of adult health quality measures maintained 
                under such subsection (b)(5) and any updates or changes 
                to such measures (as required under subsection 
                (b)(3))''.
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