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Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016

Introduced: December 6, 2016 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 6, 2016
Introduced in Senate
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Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016

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); and
  • allow ACOs to operate beneficiary incentive programs.
What's happening now December 6, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3