S-548 : Still Just a Bill

Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care Act or the EMPOWER Care Act

This bill extends funding through FY2023 for the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration Program and otherwise revises the program. (Under this program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may award grants to state Medicaid programs to assist states in increasing the use of home and community care for long-term care and decreasing the use of institutional care.)


Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2019-02-25IntroReferralRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.Senate
2019-02-25IntroReferralIntroduced in SenateLibrary of Congress

Policy Area :

Health
See Subjects
  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Congressional oversight
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Health care quality
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Home and outpatient care
  • Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
  • Medicaid
  • State and local finance
  • State and local government operations

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