HR 5769
115th Congress
House
Health
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medical education
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Expanding Access to Treatment Act
Introduced: May 10, 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
May 30, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 10, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 10, 2018
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expanding Access to Treatment Act
This bill requires payment under Medicare to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics that have health care practitioners who are newly certified to provide medication-assisted treatment. Specifically, a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic may receive payment for each health care practitioner who becomes certified on or after January 1, 2019, to prescribe or dispense methadone, buprenorphine, or suboxone (medications used to treat opioid-use disorders). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must set payments based on training costs for practitioner certification.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1