Improving Access to Mental Health Act

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 1 March 2017

   Introduced

   Referred 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 1 March 2017

   Introduced

   Referred 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.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 1 March 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 1 March 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 13 March 2017

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

   Source: Committee

6. 17 March 2017

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 1 March 2017 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 1 March 2017

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 1 March 2017

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Sponsors

• Barbara Lee · D · Sponsor
• PETER DEFAZIO · D · Sponsor
• JOSE SERRANO · D · Sponsor
• Betty McCollum · D · Sponsor
• Raúl Grijalva · D · Sponsor
• Darren Soto · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] · D · Cosponsor
• Derek Kilmer · D · Cosponsor
• JOHN CONYERS · D · Cosponsor
• LUIS GUTIERREZ · D · Cosponsor
• Stacey Plaskett · D · Cosponsor
• Carol Shea-Porter · D · Cosponsor
• Niki Tsongas · D · Cosponsor
• RICHARD NOLAN · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · D · Cosponsor
• Gerald Connolly · D · Cosponsor
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