3.0.0 1517 2023-01-11T13:24:05Z 2023-01-11T13:24:05Z Senate S S 2013-09-18 113 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-09-18T15:28:02Z Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 113 2957 HR 2013-08-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013 113 3717 HR 2014-04-03 Subcommittee Hearings Held. Related bill CRS Behavioral Health Information Technology Coordination Act of 2013 113 1685 S 2013-11-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2013-09-18 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2013-09-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI N R000361 Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] JAY ROCKEFELLER D WV 2013-10-28 False S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI 2013-10-29 False J000177 Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] TIM JOHNSON D SD 2013-10-29 False C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2013-11-14 False S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2013-11-21 False B001265 Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] Mark Begich D AK 2014-01-29 False C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2014-03-24 False K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2014-05-12 False S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2014-07-10 False Health Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Health personnel Health technology, devices, supplies Medicaid Medicare Mental health Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Health 00 2013-09-18 Introduced in Senate 2013-11-07T17:00:03Z Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include as a health care provider behavioral and mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, psychiatric hospitals, certain community mental health centers (including one operated by a county behavioral health agency), and residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to incentives for meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) technology under the pay schedule for physician's services, to include as additional eligible professionals clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services and clinical social workers. Subjects any additional eligible professionals, including those under a MedicareAdvantage (MA) plan, to reductions in incentive payments after a certain date for failure to be a meaningful EHR user.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to treat as Medicaid providers the following additional Medicaid providers: (1) public and certain private hospitals that are principally psychiatric hospitals, (2) certain community mental health centers, and (3) certain residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.

Makes eligible professionals under the Medicaid program certain clinical psychologists providing qualified psychologist services and certain clinical social workers.

]]> Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 Display Title Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to extend health information technology assistance eligibility to behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse professionals and facilities, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-09-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1517is/xml/BILLS-113s1517is.xml 2013-09-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.