CHARTS Act
Sponsored By: Representative Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced
Summary
Modernize health IT in long-term and post-acute care to improve care coordination for seniors. This bill would create a grant program to help skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and home health agencies adopt electronic tools that share data and support safer transitions between providers.
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- Seniors and patients: Would fund technology meant to improve care coordination, reduce duplicative services, and support transitions of care. The final report would evaluate whether the technology reduced patient falls and rehospitalizations.
- Long-term care providers: Would make 3-year grants available, capped at $500,000 per provider, to develop and adopt electronic health technologies and interoperability tools.
- Medicare and Medicaid populations and oversight: Grants would get priority for providers likely to help Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and HHS would produce a preliminary report within 3 years and a final evaluation within 6 years on outcomes, costs, and whether expanding the program could lower federal spending.
*This bill would authorize $5 million for each of fiscal years 2027 and 2028, totaling $10 million in new authorized spending.*
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Health IT grants for long-term care
This bill would let HHS award grants to long-term care and post-acute providers to develop and adopt health information technology. It would authorize $5 million for FY2027 and $5 million for FY2028. Grants must be awarded within two years of enactment, last up to three years, and no single provider could get more than $500,000. Eligible providers would include skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and home health agencies that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Funds would be used for electronic data exchange, clinical decision support, interoperability, and systems to improve transitions of care and prevent duplicate services. The Secretary would give priority to providers likely to improve outcomes for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and require a diverse, nationally representative sample. The Secretary would report recipients within three years and submit a final evaluation and recommendations within six years.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
MO • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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