Title: Infection Control Training and Support Act of 2020
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Infection Control Training and Support Act of 2020
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ensure that, during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), at least one of its contracts with Medicare quality improvement organizations requires that the organization assist skilled nursing facilities with COVID-19 infection control (e.g., training materials).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7254 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7254

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
    infection control support to skilled nursing facilities through 
           contracts with quality improvement organizations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2020

    Mr. Kind (for himself, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Burgess, and Mr. Upton) 
 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 
    infection control support to skilled nursing facilities through 
           contracts with quality improvement organizations.

    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 ``Infection Control Training and 
Support Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING FOR INFECTION CONTROL SUPPORT TO SKILLED NURSING 
              FACILITIES THROUGH CONTRACTS WITH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 
              ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1862(g) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395y(g)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``(1) The 
        Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) The Secretary shall ensure that at least 1 contract with a 
quality improvement organization described in paragraph (1) entered 
into on or after the date of the enactment of this paragraph and before 
the end of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) (or 
in effect as of such date) includes the requirement that such 
organization provide to skilled nursing facilities with cases of COVID-
19 (or facilities attempting to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19) 
infection control support described in subparagraph (B) during such 
period.
    ``(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the infection control 
support described in this subparagraph is, with respect to skilled 
nursing facilities described in such subparagraph, the development and 
dissemination to such facilities of protocols relating to the 
prevention or mitigation of COVID-19 at such facilities and the 
provision of training materials to such facilities relating to such 
prevention or mitigation.''.
    (b) Funding.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
provide for the transfer from the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Fund (as described in section 1841 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395t)) and the Federal Hospital Insurance 
Trust Fund (as described in section 1817 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395i)), in such proportions as determined appropriate by the 
Secretary, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Program 
Management Account, of $210,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for purposes of entering into contracts with quality 
improvement organizations under part B of title XI of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320c et seq.). Of the amount transferred pursuant to the 
previous sentence, not less that $110,000,000 shall be used for 
purposes of entering into such a contract that includes the requirement 
described in section 1862(g)(2)(A) of such Act (as added by subsection 
(a)).
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