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.

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 9011 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 DECEMBER 17, 2020 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 22:09 Jan 08, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H9011.IH H9011 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 9011 IH SECTION 1. GRANTS TO ESTABLISH LUNG CANCER 1 SCREENING REGISTRIES APPROVED BY THE 2 CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERV- 3 ICES FOR SUBMISSION OF CERTAIN DATA RE- 4 QUIRED FOR REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE 5 MEDICARE PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN SCREEN- 6 ING SERVICES. 7 (a) GRANTS.—There is appropriated to the Centers 8 for Medicare & Medicaid Services, out of any moneys in 9 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000 for 10 each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 to make grants 11 to entities to establish and carry out registries that are 12 approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 13 as meeting the requirements described in the Final Na- 14 tional Coverage Determination on Screening for Lung 15 Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography published 16 on February 5, 2015. 17 (b) LIMITATION.—As a condition of receiving a grant 18 pursuant to subsection (a), with respect to a registry de- 19 scribed in such subsection, an entity may not charge any 20 fee for access to such registry. 21 SEC. 2. ENCOURAGING DATA INTEROPERABILITY AMONG 22 LUNG CANCER SCREENING REGISTRIES. 23 The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 24 take such actions as may be necessary to ensure data 25 interoperability between all registries described in section 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:09 Jan 08, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H9011.IH H9011 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 9011 IH 1(a) (including such registries established using funds pro- 1 vided under such section, interoperability between all 2 CMS-approved lung cancer screening registries), including 3 by— 4 (1) requiring interoperability as a condition of 5 receiving any Federal funding for such a registry; 6 and 7 (2) revoking any such funding for such a reg- 8 istry if the registry is not interoperable with other 9 such registries. 10 SEC. 3. GRANTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUNG CANCER 11 SCREENING, DETECTION, AND PREVENTION 12 QUALITY MEASURES. 13 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec- 14 retary of Health and Human Services shall award com- 15 petitive grants to organizations with quality measure de- 16 velopment expertise to develop, using data contained in 17 registries described in section 1(a) (including such a reg- 18 istry established using funds provided under such section), 19 quality and efficiency measures described in subsection (b) 20 for review and potential endorsement by a consensus- 21 based entity with a contract in effect under section 1890 22 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395aaa) for uses 23 including as described in subsection (b)(7)(B) of such sec- 24 tion. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:09 Jan 08, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H9011.IH H9011 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 9011 IH (b) QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY MEASURES DE- 1 SCRIBED.—For purposes of subsection (a), quality and ef- 2 ficiency measures described in this subsection are quality 3 and efficiency measures to improve health care efficiency 4 and outcomes with respect to lung cancer screening prac- 5 tices, early detection of lung cancer, and lung cancer pre- 6 vention. 7 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 8 authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a) 9 $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:09 Jan 08, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H9011.IH H9011 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS