Patient Navigation Assistance Act of 2014
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 6, 2014)
Patient Navigation Assistance Act of 2014 - 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.
What just happenedMar 7, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 6, 2014
- Mar 7, 2014Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 6, 2014IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Mar 6, 2014IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 6, 2014IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House