Improving Access to Mental Health Act
- Last Action
- 3/17/2017
Actions
- 2017-03-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2017-03-13Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2017-03-01Referred 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.
- 2017-03-01Referred 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.
- 2017-03-01Referred 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.
- 2017-03-01Introduced in House
- 2017-03-01Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2017-03-01 (00)
Improving Access to Mental Health Act
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) increase the Medicare reimbursement rate for clinical social worker services, (2) exclude clinical social worker services from the prospective payment system in which predetermined amounts form the basis for payment under Medicare, and (3) alter the definition of “clinical social worker services” as it relates to Medicare.
Under current law, “clinical social worker services”: (1) include services performed for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, and (2) exclude services furnished to an inpatient of a skilled nursing facility as a condition of the facility's participation in the Medicare program. The bill repeals these provisions and instead specifies that such services include certain types of health behavior assessment and intervention.
Cosponsors (15)
- PETER DEFAZIO (D-OR)
- JOSE SERRANO (D-NY)
- BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- Darren Soto (D-FL)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
- JOHN CONYERS (D-MI)
- LUIS GUTIERREZ (D-IL)
- Stacey Plaskett (D-VI)
- Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Niki Tsongas (D-MA)
- RICHARD NOLAN (D-MN)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
Subjects
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Nursing
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
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