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S. 1517 113th Congress Senate

Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to extend health information technology assistance eligibility to behavioral health,… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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: September 18, 2013 Introduced by: Sheldon Whitehouse Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 18, 2013
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 Latest action September 18, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1517: Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1517/
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"S. 1517: Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1517/.
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