Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Meeting IMD Needs with Direction Act” or the “MIND Act”.
Meeting IMD Needs with Direction Act
A BILL
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide coverage and payment under title XIX of the Social Security Act for services furnished to individuals who are patients in institutions for mental diseases during the COVID–19 emergency period and 180-days thereafter, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Coverage and payment under Medicaid for services furnished to certain individuals who are patients in institutions for mental diseases during the COVID–19 emergency period and 180-days thereafter
Section 1905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(a)) is amended—
in paragraph (1), by inserting “, provided, however, that this exclusion for services in an institution for mental diseases does not apply to services furnished to any individual during the period beginning on the first day of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) and ending on the last day of the 180-day period succeeding such emergency)” after “diseases”;
in paragraph (30)(B), by inserting “provided, however, that this subparagraph (B) does not apply to services furnished to any such individual during the period beginning on the first day of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) and ending on the last day of the 180-day period succeeding such emergency” after “section 1915(l))”; and
by adding at the end of the flush left matter succeeding paragraph (30) the following new sentence: “All other laws in this title are hereby repealed, to the extent that they exclude services (or payment for services) in an institution for mental diseases furnished to any individual during the period beginning on the first day of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) and ending on the last day of the 180-day period succeeding such emergency.”.