US Congress House Bill 6521 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Introduced on September 21 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-09-21 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Pending: House Energy And Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a state Medicaid plan to provide for state reimbursement of an eligible entity for any patient navigator service provided to a Medicaid-eligible individual. Includes within the definition of "medical assistance" certain patient navigator services defined under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) as assisting in specified ways individuals who are at risk for or who have cancer or other chronic diseases. Treats as eligible entities those identified under PHSA as public or nonprofit private health centers (including federally qualified health centers), health facilities operated by or pursuant to a contract with the Indian Health Service, hospitals, cancer centers, rural health clinics, academic health centers, or nonprofit entities that enter into a partnership or coordinate referrals with such a center, clinic, facility, or hospital to provide patient navigator services.

To provide payment for patient navigator services under title XIX of the Social Security Act.

Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY]	Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]
Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]	Rep. William Owens [D-NY]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-21	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6521/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr6521/BILLS-112hr6521ih.pdf