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HR 2013 112th Congress House

Medicaid Improvement and State Empowerment Act

Official title: To empower States with programmatic flexibility and financial predictability to improve their Medicaid programs and State Children's Health Insurance Programs … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To empower States with programmatic flexibility and financial predictability to improve their Medicaid programs and State Children's Health Insurance Programs by ensuring better health care for low-income pregnant women, children, and families, and for elderly individuals and disabled individuals in need of long-term care services and supports, whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical services.

Introduced: May 26, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Became law
Sep 8, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Jun 6, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 3, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
May 26, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 26, 2011
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, House Administration, Natural Resources, the Judiciary, Rules, and Appropriations, 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.
May 26, 2011
Introduced in House
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 Latest action September 8, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicaid Improvement and State Empowerment Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new part B (Taxpayer Provided Pass-Through Funding of Health Care Grants to States for Pregnant Women, Low-Income Children, and Low-Income Families and for Long-Term Care Services and Supports for Low-Income Elderly or Disabled Individuals).

Entitles each state that has submitted a plan for each 12-month period to receive a health grant from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide: (1) medical assistance to pregnant women, low-income children, and low-income families with children whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of medical, rehabilitation, and other services necessary to help them attain or retain capability for independence or self-care; and (2) long-term care services and supports for low-income elderly or disabled individuals with insufficient income and resources to meet the costs of services to help them attain or retain such capability.

Directs the Secretary to award grants to assist eligible states in implementing state-based medical malpractice reforms.

Terminates funding under SSA titles XIX and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP).

Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores or revives the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Acts as if they had not been enacted.

Directs the Secretary to establish a new formula for payments made to or received from states under parts D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of SSA title IV that are based on the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) applicable to the state under Medicaid.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2013: Medicaid Improvement and State Empowerment Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2013/
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