Partial Hospitalization Services Integrity Act of 1997
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Oct 8, 1997)
Partial Hospitalization Services Integrity Act of 1997 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) deny coverage of partial hospitalization services in home and skilled nursing home settings; (2) provide for new qualifications for community mental health centers as the Secretary of Health and Human Services may specify to ensure the health and safety of individuals being furnished mental health services and the effective or efficient furnishing of such services; and (3) authorize the Secretary to establish by regulation a prospective payment system for partial hospitalization services provided by a community mental health center or hospital to its outpatients.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for periodic re-certification to ensure that the provision of such services complies with appropriate criteria under the Public Health Service Act; and (2) implement a demonstration project under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) under which community mental health centers may offer expanded partial hospitalization services which are not currently covered as such under Medicare for purposes of providing for a full continuum of ambulatory behavioral health care services.
What just happenedOct 27, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseOct 8, 1997
- Oct 27, 1997CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Oct 14, 1997CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Oct 8, 1997IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Oct 8, 1997IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.
- Oct 8, 1997IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee - Oct 8, 1997IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1978-1979)
- Oct 8, 1997IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Oct 8, 1997IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House