Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act
Official title: To facilitate direct primary care arrangements under Medicaid.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act
This bill specifies that state Medicaid programs are authorized to provide primary care services through direct primary care arrangements (i.e., arrangements in which primary care providers receive a fixed periodic fee for their services).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must (1) convene at least one virtual stakeholder meeting and issue related guidance on how state Medicaid programs may implement direct primary care arrangements, and (2) report on the extent to which state Medicaid programs contract with independent providers and on the quality and cost of care under direct primary care arrangements that are offered through Medicaid managed care organizations.
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- BOEING COMPANY
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
- BOEING COMPANY
- AMERICA'S HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS, INC. (AHIP)
- NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- White House Office
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Office of the Vice President of the United States
- State, Dept of (DOS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1162: Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1162/
"H.R. 1162: Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1162/.
H.R. 1162, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1162/.
[H.R. 1162: Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1162/)