PACE Pilot Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4543
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2014-05-01
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Aging

Department of Health and Human Services

Health care coverage and access

Home and outpatient care

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicaid

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-05-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>PACE Pilot Act of 2014 - Amends title XI (General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to waive applicable general and Medicaid requirements of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly (PACE) in order to conduct demonstration projects through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) that involve PACE. Prohibits the Secretary, however, as part of a CMMI demonstration, from waiving: (1) the requirement to offer items and services under Medicare without limitations, and (2) certain requirements regarding enrollment in and disenrollment from PACE programs.</p> Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary should use waiver authority under this Act to provide, in a budget neutral manner, PACE programs with increased operational flexibility to support their ability to improve and innovate and to reduce technical and administrative barriers that have hindered enrollment.

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4543 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 1, 2014 Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. McGovern , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Honda , and Ms. Speier ) 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 A BILL To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to apply CMMI waiver authority to PACE programs in order to foster innovations in such programs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the PACE Pilot Act of 2014 . 2. Applying CMMI waiver authority to foster innovations in PACE programs (a) In general Section 1115A(d)(1) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315a(d)(1) ) is amended— (1) by inserting (other than subsections (b)(1)(A) and (c)(5) of section 1894) after XVIII ; and (2) by striking and 1903(m)(2)(A)(iii) and inserting 1903(m)(2)(A)(iii), and 1934 (other than subsections (b)(1)(A) and (c)(5) of such section) . (b) Sense of the House of Representatives It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should use the waiver authority provided under the amendments made by this section to provide, in a budget neutral manner, programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs) with increased operational flexibility to support the ability of such programs to improve and innovate and to reduce technical and administrative barriers that have hindered enrollment in such programs.