A resolution calling on the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take action to lower prescription drug costs.
- Last Action
- 4/13/2021
Actions
- 2021-02-02Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2021-02-02Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-02-02 (00)
COVID HCBS Relief Act of 2021
This bill temporarily increases the applicable Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) under Medicaid for certain approved home- and community-based services that are provided between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2022.
As a condition for receiving the increased rate, a state must agree to undertake activities to improve the delivery of such services during and after the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), such as by providing additional benefits to home health workers and by helping individuals who were relocated to nursing facilities during the emergency move back to their homes.
Cosponsors (18)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- John Reed (D-RI)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Gary Peters (D-MI)
Subjects
- Allied health services
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Community life and organization
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee hiring
- Employee leave
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Government studies and investigations
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health personnel
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Home and outpatient care
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Mental health
- Nursing
- State and local government operations
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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