Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016
Latest action · Dec 6, 2016 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedDec 6, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to:
- extend the Independence at Home demonstration program;
- modify provisions regarding access to home dialysis therapy under Medicare and special needs plans under Medicare Advantage (MA);
- expand testing of the MA Value-Based Insurance Design test model;
- allow an MA plan to provide additional telehealth benefits to enrollees and, to chronically ill enrollees, certain supplemental health care benefits;
- modify other provisions regarding the use of telehealth services;
- allow prospective, voluntary assignment of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs); and
- allow ACOs to operate beneficiary incentive programs.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 6, 2016 to Dec 7, 2016, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-GA | Johnny Isakson | Original | Dec 6, 2016 |
| D-VA | Mark R. Warner | Original | Dec 6, 2016 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Dec 6, 2016 |
| D-CO | Michael F. Bennet | Dec 7, 2016 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 6, 2016Introduced in Senate
- Dec 6, 2016Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Disability and paralysis
- Drug therapy
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Home and outpatient care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Nutrition and diet
- Prescription drugs
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 6, 2016Introduced in Senate
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