Lung Cancer Screening Registry and Quality Improvement Act of 2021.

I 117TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 107 To provide funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide grants to entities to establish lung cancer screening registries approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for submission of certain data required for reimbursement under the Medicare program for certain screening services, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 4, 2021 Mr. HIGGINS of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- mittee 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 A BILL To provide funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide grants to entities to establish lung cancer screening registries approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for submission of certain data required for reimbursement under the Medicare pro- gram for certain screening services, and for other pur- poses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:52 Feb 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H107.IH H107 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 107 IH SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lung Cancer Screen- 2 ing Registry and Quality Improvement Act of 2021.’’ 3 SEC. 2. GRANTS TO ESTABLISH LUNG CANCER SCREENING 4 REGISTRIES APPROVED BY THE CENTERS 5 FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES FOR 6 SUBMISSION OF CERTAIN DATA REQUIRED 7 FOR REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE MEDI- 8 CARE PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN SCREENING 9 SERVICES. 10 (a) GRANTS.—There is appropriated to the Centers 11 for Medicare & Medicaid Services, out of any moneys in 12 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000 for 13 each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to make grants 14 to entities to establish and carry out registries that are 15 approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 16 as meeting the requirements described in the Final Na- 17 tional Coverage Determination on Screening for Lung 18 Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography published 19 on February 5, 2015. 20 (b) LIMITATION.—As a condition of receiving a grant 21 pursuant to subsection (a), with respect to a registry de- 22 scribed in such subsection, an entity may not charge any 23 fee for access to such registry. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:52 Feb 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H107.IH H107 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 107 IH SEC. 3. ENCOURAGING DATA INTEROPERABILITY AMONG 1 LUNG CANCER SCREENING REGISTRIES. 2 The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 3 take such actions as may be necessary to ensure data 4 interoperability between all registries described in section 5 1(a) (including such registries established using funds pro- 6 vided under such section, interoperability between all 7 CMS-approved lung cancer screening registries), including 8 by— 9 (1) requiring interoperability as a condition of 10 receiving any Federal funding for such a registry; 11 and 12 (2) revoking any such funding for such a reg- 13 istry if the registry is not interoperable with other 14 such registries. 15 SEC. 4. GRANTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUNG CANCER 16 SCREENING, DETECTION, AND PREVENTION 17 QUALITY MEASURES. 18 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec- 19 retary of Health and Human Services shall award com- 20 petitive grants to organizations with quality measure de- 21 velopment expertise to develop, using data contained in 22 registries described in section 1(a) (including such a reg- 23 istry established using funds provided under such section), 24 quality and efficiency measures described in subsection (b) 25 for review and potential endorsement by a consensus- 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:52 Feb 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H107.IH H107 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 107 IH based entity with a contract in effect under section 1890 1 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395aaa) for uses 2 including as described in subsection (b)(7)(B) of such sec- 3 tion. 4 (b) QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY MEASURES DE- 5 SCRIBED.—For purposes of subsection (a), quality and ef- 6 ficiency measures described in this subsection are quality 7 and efficiency measures to improve health care efficiency 8 and outcomes with respect to lung cancer screening prac- 9 tices, early detection of lung cancer, and lung cancer pre- 10 vention. 11 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 12 authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a) 13 $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. 14 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:52 Feb 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H107.IH H107 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS