# 119-s-1797: Expanding Seniors Access to Mental Health Services Act

119-s-1797, Expanding Seniors Access to Mental Health Services Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] (R-WY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-25).

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- As of: 2026-07-25
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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1797
- Congress: 119
- Title: Expanding Seniors Access to Mental Health Services Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-15
- Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] (R-WY)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-25

## Summary

**Expand Medicare coverage of clinical social worker services in skilled nursing facilities.** This bill would remove clinical social worker services from the Skilled Nursing Facility prospective payment system and add health and behavior assessment and intervention codes to the set of covered clinical social worker services.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] (D-DE), 2025-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN), 2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More Medicare mental health services: benefit, medium. If enacted, Medicare would cover a wider set of clinical social worker services for mental health and behavior. Those services would include health and behavior assessment and intervention identified by HCPCS codes 96156, 96158–96161, 96164–96168, and 96170–96171 (and any succeeding codes) as of Ja…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1797 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1797)

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- [119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5025)
- [119-s-2461: Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2461)
- [119-s-1639: American Innovation and Jobs Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1639)
- [119-s-1241: Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1241)
- [119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-237)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1797 (as of 2026-07-25).