Title: MIND Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Meeting IMD Needs with Direction Act or the MIND Act
This bill temporarily allows states to receive federal Medicaid payment for services provided in institutions for mental diseases (IMDs) during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and for 180 days after the emergency ends.
Current law generally prohibits federal payment under Medicaid for services provided in IMDs for individuals under the age of 65 (although states may receive payment through certain mechanisms, such as through a Medicaid demonstration waiver).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6926 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6926

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide coverage and 
    payment under title XIX of the Social Security Act for services 
 furnished to individuals who are patients in institutions for mental 
diseases during the COVID-19 emergency period and 180-days thereafter, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2020

Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 
 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 provide coverage and 
    payment under title XIX of the Social Security Act for services 
 furnished to individuals who are patients in institutions for mental 
diseases during the COVID-19 emergency period and 180-days thereafter, 
                        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 ``Meeting IMD Needs with Direction 
Act'' or ``MIND Act''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE AND PAYMENT UNDER MEDICAID FOR SERVICES FURNISHED TO 
              CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PATIENTS IN INSTITUTIONS FOR 
              MENTAL DISEASES DURING THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD AND 
              180-DAYS THEREAFTER.

    Section 1905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, provided, however, 
        that this exclusion for services in an institution for mental 
        diseases does not apply to services furnished to any individual 
        during the period beginning on the first day of the emergency 
        period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) and ending on the 
        last day of the 180-day period succeeding such emergency)'' 
        after ``diseases'';
            (2) in paragraph (30)(B), by inserting ``provided, however, 
        that this subparagraph (B) does not apply to services furnished 
        to any such individual during the period beginning on the first 
        day of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) 
        and ending on the last day of the 180-day period succeeding 
        such emergency'' after ``section 1915(l))''; and
            (3) by adding at the end of the flush left matter 
        succeeding paragraph (30) the following new sentence: ``All 
        other laws in this title are hereby repealed, to the extent 
        that they exclude services (or payment for services) in an 
        institution for mental diseases furnished to any individual 
        during the period beginning on the first day of the emergency 
        period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) and ending on the 
        last day of the 180-day period succeeding such emergency.''.
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