Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009

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8 cosponsors · 6 D, 2 R

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Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow as partial hospitalization services nutritional planning, meals, and transportation.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Dec 16, 2009

Directs the Secretary of Heatlh and Human Services (HHS) to convene a Behavioral Health Advisory Committee to address issues relating to: (1) discrimination against the chronically mentally ill, elderly, and U.S. veterans as it relates to receiving treatment for mental illness; and (2) the establishment of conditions of participation for community mental health centers that provide partial hospitalization services under the Medicare program.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009

Latest action (Dec 19, 2009): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Dec 16, 2009

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.