EMPOWER Care Act
- Last Action
- 2/26/2019
Actions
- 2019-02-26Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2019-02-25Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- 2019-02-25Introduced in House
- 2019-02-25Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-02-25 (00)
Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care Act or the EMPOWER Care Act
This bill extends funding through FY2023 for the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration Program and otherwise revises the program. (Under this program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may award grants to state Medicaid programs to assist states in increasing the use of home and community care for long-term care and decreasing the use of institutional care.)
Cosponsors (20)
- Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
- Donald Payne (D-NJ)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Doris Matsui (D-CA)
- Kathleen Rice (D-NY)
- Jackie Speier (D-CA)
- MIKE DOYLE (D-PA)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD (D-CA)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Sean Maloney (D-NY)
- Denny Heck (D-WA)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- Billy Long (R-MO)
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Health care quality
- Health programs administration and funding
- Home and outpatient care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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