Title: Behavioral Health Integration Awareness Act of 2022
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Behavioral Health Integration Awareness Act of 2022
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to (1) conduct outreach to providers on the availability of certain behavioral health integration services under Medicare, and (2) report on the utilization of such services.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8910 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8910

    To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide 
    outreach and reporting on certain behavioral health integration 
             services furnished under the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2022

 Mr. Smith of Missouri (for himself, Mr. Schneider, and Mr. Ferguson) 
 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 direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide 
    outreach and reporting on certain behavioral health integration 
             services furnished under the Medicare program.

    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 ``Behavioral Health Integration 
Awareness Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDER OUTREACH AND REPORTING ON CERTAIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 
              INTEGRATION SERVICES.

    (a) Outreach.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this 
section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall conduct outreach to 
physicians and appropriate non-physician practitioners participating 
under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) with respect to behavioral health integration 
services described by any of HCPCS codes 99492 through 99494 or 99484 
(or any successor code). Such outreach shall include a comprehensive, 
one-time education initiative to inform such physicians and 
practitioners of the inclusion of such services as a covered benefit 
under the Medicare program, including describing the requirements to 
bill for such codes and the requirements for beneficiary eligibility 
for such services.
    (b) Reports to Congress.--
            (1) Provider outreach.--Not later than 1 year after the 
        date of the completion of the education initiative described in 
        subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
        Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
        House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
        Senate a report on the outreach conducted under such 
        subsection. Such report shall include a description of the 
        methods used for such outreach.
            (2) Utilization rates.--Not later than 18 months after the 
        date of the completion of the education initiative described in 
        subsection (a), and two years thereafter, the Secretary shall 
        submit to the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on 
        Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Finance of the Senate a report on the number of 
        Medicare beneficiaries (including those accessing services in 
        rural and underserved areas) who, during the preceding year, 
        were furnished services described in subsection (a) for which 
        payment was made under title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).
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