PACE Pilot Act of 2014

PACE Pilot Act of 2014 - Amends title XI (General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to waive applicable general and Medicaid requirements of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly (PACE) in order to conduct demonstration projects through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) that involve PACE. Prohibits the Secretary, however, as part of a CMMI demonstration, from waiving: (1) the requirement to offer items and services under Medicare without limitations, and (2) certain requirements regarding enrollment in and disenrollment from PACE programs.

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary should use waiver authority under this Act to provide, in a budget neutral manner, PACE programs with increased operational flexibility to support their ability to improve and innovate and to reduce technical and administrative barriers that have hindered enrollment.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4543 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4543

   To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to apply CMMI waiver 
   authority to PACE programs in order to foster innovations in such 
                   programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2014

Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. 
    Honda, and Ms. Speier) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to apply CMMI waiver 
   authority to PACE programs in order to foster innovations in such 
                   programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``PACE Pilot Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. APPLYING CMMI WAIVER AUTHORITY TO FOSTER INNOVATIONS IN PACE 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1115A(d)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1315a(d)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(other than subsections (b)(1)(A) and 
        (c)(5) of section 1894)'' after ``XVIII''; and
            (2) by striking ``and 1903(m)(2)(A)(iii)'' and inserting 
        ``1903(m)(2)(A)(iii), and 1934 (other than subsections 
        (b)(1)(A) and (c)(5) of such section)''.
    (b) Sense of the House of Representatives.--It is the sense of the 
House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services should use the waiver authority provided under the amendments 
made by this section to provide, in a budget neutral manner, programs 
of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs) with increased 
operational flexibility to support the ability of such programs to 
improve and innovate and to reduce technical and administrative 
barriers that have hindered enrollment in such programs.
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