Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017
Latest action · Dec 8, 2017 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.
- IntroducedDec 6, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017
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);
- allow ACOs to operate beneficiary incentive programs;
- require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a process for Medicare prescription-drug plan sponsors to request certain claims data from the CMS;
- require the CMS to study and report to Congress on long-term risk factors for chronic conditions among Medicare beneficiaries; and
- eliminate annual funding available to the Medicare Improvement Fund and the Medicaid Improvement Fund beginning in FY2021.
The Government Accountability Office shall conduct studies on:
- the establishment of a payment code for a visit for longitudinal comprehensive care planning services,
- the extent to which Medicare prescription drug plans and private payors use programs that synchronize pharmacy dispensing to facilitate comprehensive counseling and promote medication adherence, and
- the use of prescription drugs to manage the weight of obese patients and the impact of such drug coverage on patient health and health care spending.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Dec 6, 2017.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Kurt Schrader | Original | Dec 6, 2017 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Dec 6, 2017 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 6, 2017 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 8, 2017 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 6, 2017Introduced in House
- Dec 6, 2017Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 199, December 6, 2017, page H9709.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 115-55 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 6344, TO AMEND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973 TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION EFFORTS, "LOCAL ACT OF 2018"; ...... "PETITION ACT OF 2018"107 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Sep 26, 2018 |
Related bills 8
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 431 | Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act | Related bill | Feb 16, 2017 |
| S 870 | Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017 | Related bill | Sep 29, 2017 |
| HR 1892 | Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 | Related bill | Feb 9, 2018 |
| HR 1995 | V-BID for Better Care Act of 2017 | Related bill | Apr 21, 2017 |
| HR 3044 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand supplemental benefits to meet the needs of chronically ill Medicare Advantage enrollees under the Medicare program, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Jul 5, 2017 |
| HR 3168 | SNP Reauthorization Act of 2017 | Related bill | Dec 21, 2017 |
| HR 3263 | Independence at Home Demonstration Improvement and Extension Act of 2017 | Related bill | Dec 6, 2017 |
| HR 3447 | FACTS Act of 2017 | Related bill | Jul 28, 2017 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to implement Medicare payment policies designed to improve management of chronic disease, streamline care coordination, and improve quality outcomes without adding to the deficit.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017
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, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
