Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act
Official title: To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to adjust coverage and payment for certified community behavioral health clinic services under the Med… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to adjust coverage and payment for certified community behavioral health clinic services under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes.
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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.
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- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
- HOOPER, LUNDY & BOOKMAN, P.C.
- AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SERVICES INC.(FKA AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Education, Dept of
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8487: Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8487/
"H.R. 8487: Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8487/.
H.R. 8487, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8487/.
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