Infection Control Training and Support Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7254
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2020-06-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government trust funds

Health care quality

Health facilities and institutions

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicare

Nursing

Public contracts and procurement
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-18
text: 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Infection Control Training and Support Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; 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).</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7254 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Infection Control Training and Support Act of 2020 . 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)).