Sec. 761. Support data system review and indicators for monitoring HIV care
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shall expand and coordinate efforts to align metrics across agencies and modify Federal data systems, to— adopt the Institute of Medicine’s clinical HIV care indicators as the core metrics for monitoring the quality of HIV care, mental health, substance abuse, and supportive services; better enable assessment of the impact of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on improving HIV/AIDS care and access to supportive services for individuals with HIV; expand the demographic data elements to be captured by Federal data systems relevant to HIV care to permit calculation of the indicators for subgroups of the population of people with diagnosed HIV infection, including— age; race; ethnicity; sex (assigned at birth); gender identity; sexual orientation; current geographic marker of residence; income or poverty level; and primary means of reimbursement for medical services (including Medicaid, Medicare, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, private insurance, health maintenance organizations, and no coverage); and streamline data collection and systematically review all existing reporting requirements for federally funded HIV/AIDS programs to ensure that only essential data are collected.