HR 5062
115th Congress
House
Health
Child health
Genetics
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicaid
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
State and local finance
Advancing Access to Precision Medicine Act
Introduced: February 15, 2018
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 16, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 15, 2018
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 15, 2018
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Advancing Access to Precision Medicine Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Medicine for the academy to study usage of genetic and genomic testing, including how to reduce barriers to the utilization of such testing.
The bill allows states to apply for an exception to Medicaid's federal medical assistance percentage rate to provide whole genome sequencing clinical services to certain children, including those admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit for a chronic or undiagnosed disease and those suspected to have a pediatric-onset genetic disease.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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