Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§1396w–8 Collection and reporting of comprehensive data for specified populations
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - SOCIAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIX— - GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS › § 1396w–8
Summary
The Secretary must each year connect, study, and post public reports using T‑MSIS (the Medicaid/CHIP data system) about people on Medicaid or CHIP who were diagnosed with a substance use disorder, a mental health condition, or both. The reports must remove names and other personal identifiers, follow HHS privacy rules, and group data so people cannot be identified. The information must be broken down by age and, where possible, cover every State and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. The reports must show, for each State and major enrollment group, counts and percentages of people with each diagnosis and the kinds of services they got (for adults and children when available), such as counseling, crisis care, inpatient care, medication‑assisted treatment, residential care, peer and family supports, and other major service types. The reports must show which settings were used (outpatient, inpatient, residential, home or community), how many services each person received, whether care came through managed care, fee‑for‑service, or alternative payment models, and follow‑up care after discharge (including readmissions within 30 days and emergency visits within 7 days). The reports must also include numbers who had assessments for mental health or substance use disorder and the services they received in the 30 days after assessment, plus prescription drug details (NDC codes, fill dates, days’ supply) tied to episodes described above. The first report must be made not later than 18 months after March 9, 2024. The Secretary must update the report by January 1 each year, use T‑MSIS data no more than 12 months old when publishing, describe data quality and limits, publish a research‑ready public interface beginning not later than 3 years after March 9, 2024, and publish a system of records notice and begin data‑sharing activities not later than January 1, 2025 (unless an existing February 6, 2019 notice already meets the rules).
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Title 42, §1396w–8
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(a)(1)The Secretary, on an annual basis, shall link, analyze, and publish on a publicly available website data reported by States through the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T–MSIS) (or a successor system) relating to substance use disorder and mental health services provided to individuals enrolled under a State plan under this subchapter or a State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder or mental health condition, including an analysis that is disaggregated by age. Such enrollee information shall be de-identified of any personally identifying information, shall adhere to privacy standards established by the Department of Health and Human Services, and shall be aggregated to protect the privacy of enrollees, as necessary.
(2)The analysis required under paragraph (1) shall include, at a minimum, the following data for each State (including, to the extent available, for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa):
(A)The number and percentage of individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) in each of the major enrollment categories (as defined in a public letter from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission to the Secretary) who have been diagnosed with—
(i)a substance use disorder;
(ii)a mental health condition; or
(iii)a co-occurring substance use disorder and mental health condition.
(B)With respect to individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who have received a diagnosis described in subparagraph (A), a list of the substance use disorder and mental health treatment services, including, to the extent such data are available, specific adult and pediatric services by each major type of service, such as counseling, intensive home-based services, intensive care coordination, crisis services tailored to children and youth, peer support services, family-to-family support, inpatient hospitalization, medication-assisted treatment, residential treatment, and other appropriate services as identified by the Secretary, for which beneficiaries in each State received at least 1 service under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans).
(C)With respect to each diagnosis described in subparagraph (A), the number and percentage of individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who have such diagnosis and received services for such diagnosis under such plan or waiver by each major type of treatment service listed under subparagraph (B) within each major setting type, such as outpatient, inpatient, residential, and other home-based and community-based settings.
(D)The number of services provided under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) per individual enrolled under such plan or waiver who has a diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) for each such diagnosis and each major type of treatment service listed under subparagraph (B).
(E)The number and percentage of individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) by major enrollment category, who have a diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) and received substance use disorder or mental health treatment through—
(i)a Medicaid managed care entity (as defined in section 1396u–2(a)(1)(B) of this title), including the number of such individuals who received such assistance through a prepaid inpatient health plan (as defined by the Secretary) or a prepaid ambulatory health plan (as defined by the Secretary);
(ii)a fee-for-service payment model; or
(iii)an alternative payment model, to the extent available.
(F)The number and percentage of individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who have a diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) and received services for a mental health condition or a substance use disorder in an outpatient or community-based or home-based setting after receiving mental health or substance use disorder services in an inpatient or residential setting, and the number of mental health or substance use disorder services received by such individuals in the outpatient or community-based or home-based setting.
(G)The number and percentage of inpatient admissions in which services for a mental health condition or substance use disorder were provided to an individual enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) that occurred within 30 days after discharge from a hospital or residential facility in which services for a mental health condition or substance use disorder previously were provided to such individual, disaggregated by each diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) and type of facility, to the extent such information is available.
(H)The number of emergency department visits by an individual enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who has a diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) within 7 days of such individual being discharged from an inpatient stay at a hospital during which services for a mental health condition or substance use disorder were provided, or from a mental health facility, an independent psychiatric wing of an acute care hospital, an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, or a residential treatment facility, disaggregated by each diagnosis described in subparagraph (A) and type of facility, to the extent such information is available.
(I)The number and percentage of individuals who are enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) and received an assessment for a mental health condition.
(J)The number and percentage of individuals who are enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) and received an assessment for a substance use disorder.
(K)The number of mental health services provided to individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who received an assessment described in subparagraph (I) in the 30 days post-assessment.
(L)The number of substance use disorder treatment services provided to individuals enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) who received an assessment described in subparagraph (J) in the 30 days post-assessment.
(M)Prescription National Drug Code codes, fill dates, and number of days supply of any covered outpatient drug (as defined in section 1396r–8(k)(2) of this title) that was dispensed to an individual enrolled under the State plan under this subchapter or the State child health plan under subchapter XXI (or under a waiver of such plans) with an episode described in subparagraph (G) or (H) during any period that occurs after the individual’s discharge date defined in subparagraph (G) or (H) (as applicable), and before the admission date applicable under subparagraph (G) or the date of the emergency department visit applicable under subparagraph (H) that were—
(i)to treat a mental health condition; or
(ii)to treat a substance use disorder.
(b)(1)Not later than 18 months after March 9, 2024, the Secretary shall make publicly available the first analysis required by subsection (a).
(2)The Secretary shall issue an updated version of the analysis required under subsection (a) not later than January 1 of each calendar year.
(3)The analysis required under subsection (a) and updates required under paragraph (4) shall—
(A)use data and definitions from the T–MSIS data set that is no more than 12 months old on the date that the analysis or update is published; and
(B)as appropriate, include a description with respect to each State of the quality and completeness of the data and caveats describing the limitations of the data reported to the Secretary by the State that is sufficient to communicate the appropriate uses for the information.
(4)Beginning not later than 3 years after March 9, 2024, the Secretary annually shall publish a revised publication of the analysis required by subsection (a) that allows for a research-ready and publicly accessible interface of the publication and is developed after consultation with stakeholders on the usability of the data contained in the publication.
(5)(A)(i)Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a system of records notice for the data specified in clause (ii) for the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System, in accordance with section 552a(e)(4) of title 5. The notice shall outline policies that protect the security and privacy of the data that, at a minimum, meet the security and privacy policies of SORN 09-70-0541 for the Medicaid Statistical Information System.
(ii)The data covered by the systems of records notice required under clause (i) shall be sufficient for researchers and States to analyze the prevalence of conditions described in subsection (a)(2)(A) in the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiary population and the treatment of such conditions under Medicaid across all States (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), forms of treatment, and treatment settings.
(iii)Not later than January 1, 2025, the Secretary shall initiate the data-sharing activities outlined in the notice required under clause (i).
(B)The Secretary shall not be required to publish a new system of records notice as required under subparagraph (A) if, not later than January 1, 2025, the Secretary determines that the system of records notice published by the Secretary in the Federal Register on February 6, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 2230), satisfies the requirements described in subparagraph (A).
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42 U.S.C. § 1396w–8
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73