Title: Medicaid Expansion During Crisis Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Medicaid Expansion During Crisis Act
This bill alters certain provisions relating to Medicaid presumptive eligibility for pregnant women, children, breast and cervical cancer patients, and patients of certain family planning services. (Presumptive eligibility allows qualifying individuals to receive services before their applications are fully processed.)
Specifically, the bill extends the applicable presumptive eligibility periods by five months. The bill also provides a 100% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) to states for expenses related to such eligibility determinations during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7892 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7892

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the duration of 
  presumptive eligibility periods under the Medicaid program to allow 
     presumptively eligible individuals to have more time to file 
 applications for enrollment under State plans under such program, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2020

Mrs. Watson Coleman (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, and Mr. 
  Grijalva) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the duration of 
  presumptive eligibility periods under the Medicaid program to allow 
     presumptively eligible individuals to have more time to file 
 applications for enrollment under State plans under such program, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicaid Expansion During Crisis 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MEDICAID PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIODS TO ALLOW 
              MORE TIME FOR FILING OF APPLICATIONS; FULL FEDERAL 
              FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION FOR CERTAIN STATE MEDICAID 
              EXPENDITURES.

    (a) Extension of Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility Periods To Allow 
More Time for Filing of Applications.--
    (1) Section 1920(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396r-1(b)(1)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ``who does not file an 
application by the last day of the month following'' and inserting 
``who does not file an application by the last day of the sixth month 
following''.
    (2) Section 1920A(b)(2)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396r-1a(b)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ``on whose behalf 
an application is not filed by the last day of the month following'' 
and inserting ``on whose behalf an application is not filed by the last 
day of the sixth month following''.
    (3) Section 1920B(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396r-1b(b)(1)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ``who does not 
file an application by the last day of the month following'' and 
inserting ``who does not file an application by the last day of the 
sixth month following''.
    (4) Section 1920C(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396r-1(b)(1)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ``who does not file 
an application by the last day of the month following'' and inserting 
``who does not file an application by the last day of the sixth month 
following''.
    (b) Permitting Community Health Centers To Make Presumptive 
Eligibility Determinations for All Medicaid-Eligible Populations.--
Section 1902(a)(47)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396a(a)(47)(B)) is amended by inserting after ``any hospital'' the 
following: ``, as well as any community health center,''.
    (c) Full Federal Financial Participation for Certain State Medicaid 
Expenditures.--Section 1903(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396b(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
            ``(F) for each calendar quarter occurring during period 
        beginning on the first day of the emergency period defined in 
        paragraph (1)(B) of section 1135(g) and ending on the last day 
        of the calendar quarter in which the last day of such emergency 
        period occurs, an amount equal to 100 percent of the sums 
        expended during such quarter (as found necessary by the 
        Secretary for the proper and efficient administration of the 
        State plan) as are attributable to activities by the State to 
        implement the State plan requirement described in section 
        1902(a)(47)(B); plus''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to presumptive eligibility determinations made on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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