ASK Act

Bill: 115-hr-4820
Sponsor: Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4]
Introduced: 2018-01-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Disability and paralysis
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Sex and reproductive health
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-18
text: 

Advancing Seniors and Kids Act or the ASK Act

 
This bill extends, and otherwise revises, various public health and social welfare programs. Specifically, the bill:
 
 
permanently extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); 
 
extends by one year, but reduces by half, additional federal financial participation for CHIP; 
 
extends CHIP's qualifying-states option, express-lane eligibility option, and outreach and enrollment program; 
 
extends the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund, the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program; 
 
modifies Medicare payment rules and reporting requirements with respect to ground-ambulance services; 
 
permanently extends specialized Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for certain special-needs individuals; 
 
expands certain supplemental benefits under MA for chronically ill enrollees; 
 
extends the Medicare payment adjustment known as the "home-health rural add-on"; 
 
makes permanent or extends other specified programs and payment rules under Medicare; 
 
under Medicaid, extends certain health workforce demonstration projects as well as specified programs related to community health centers, diabetes, graduate medical education, family-to-family health-information centers, abstinence education, and personal-responsibility education; 
 
delays certain changes, under Medicaid, to disproportionate-share hospital allotments and to third-party liability provisions; 
 
extends the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and requires, under the program, continued demonstration of improvements in certain benchmark areas; 
 
establishes a grant program for the monitoring of representative payees under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program; 
 
otherwise revises provisions related to representative payment under SSI and OASDI; and 
 
with respect to the child-welfare system, modifies provisions related to information sharing and to overpayment liability. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-01-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2018-01-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2018-01-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-01-18
text: Introduced in House