Sec. 412. Improve and modernize Medicaid data systems and reporting
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall implement a strategic plan to increase the usefulness of data about State Medicaid programs reported by States to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The strategic plan shall address redundancies and gaps in Medicaid data systems and reporting through improvements to, and modernization of, computer and data systems. Areas for improvement under the plan shall include (but not be limited to) the following: The reporting of encounter data by managed care plans.
The timeliness and quality of reported data, including enrollment data. The consistency of data reported from multiple sources. Information about State program policies. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit a report to Congress on the status of the implementation of the strategic plan required under subsection (a). There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the period of fiscal years 2015 through 2019, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.