[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1604 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1604

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend to physician 
assistants eligibility for Medicaid incentive payments for the adoption 
  and use of certified electronic health records, whether or not such 
  physician assistants practice at a rural health center or Federally 
                        qualified health center.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2017

   Ms. Bass introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend to physician 
assistants eligibility for Medicaid incentive payments for the adoption 
  and use of certified electronic health records, whether or not such 
  physician assistants practice at a rural health center or Federally 
                        qualified health center.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health IT Modernization for 
Underserved Communities Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAID 
              ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1903(t)(3)(B)(v) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(t)(3)(B)(v)) is amended by striking ``insofar as 
the assistant is practicing in a rural health clinic that is led by a 
physician assistant or is practicing in a Federally qualified health 
center that is so led''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to payments made for calendar quarters beginning on 
or after the date of enactment of this Act.
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