Improving the Quality of Mental and Substance Use Health Care Act of 2007
Latest action · Nov 15, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 15, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Improving the Quality of Mental and Substance Use Health Care Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a Commission for Evidence-Based Mental and Substance Use Health Care; (2) convene an interagency collaborative group to provide for the coordination of mental health and substance use services and primary care services funded through the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Justice, Veterans Affairs, Defense, and Education; (3) implement a plan for ensuring that HHS activities to promote information technology use by health care providers include promotion of technology that is accessible and pertinent to mental health and substance use health care providers and consumers; (4) establish the Council on Mental Health and Substance Use Health Care Workforce; (5) develop uniform methodologies regarding qualifications for eligibility for payment, financial auditing, and claims payment with respect to medical assistance, related services, and administrative costs furnished to individuals with mental illnesses and substance use disorders in community-based and residential settings; and (6) establish a five-year project designed to demonstrate the impact of creating delivery and financing structures that deliver high-quality, integrated mental health and substance use health care.
Requires: (1) the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make grants to entities to fund a network of national centers of excellence in mental health and substance use health care; and (2) the Comptroller General to study the use of publicly supported mental health and addiction services by individuals who have any level of private health insurance coverage.
Amends the Social Security Act to establish a Medicaid requirement that states receiving assistance prohibit the denial of covered services and benefits based on intoxication.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 15, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MN | Jim Ramstad | Original | Nov 15, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 15, 2007Introduced in House
- Nov 15, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Nov 15, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Accreditation (Medical care)
- Alcoholism
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Auditing
- Case management
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Claims
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health planning
- Home care services
- Information technology
- Medicaid
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Mental health
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Military medicine
- Patients' rights
- Presidential commissions
- Research grants
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 15, 2007Introduced in House
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