Sec. 3. Development of State-level metrics on Medicaid beneficiary access and satisfaction
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Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in consultation with State Medicaid Directors, shall develop standardized, State-level metrics of access to, and satisfaction with, providers, including primary care and specialist providers, with respect to individuals who are enrolled in State Medicaid plans under title XIX of the Social Security Act. The Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shall develop the metrics described in paragraph
(1)through a public process, which shall provide opportunities for stakeholders to participate. The Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in consultation with the Deputy Administrator for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services and State Medicaid Directors, shall update the metrics developed under subsection
(a)not less than once every 3 years. The Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality may award funds, from the amount appropriated under subsection (d), to States for the purpose of implementing the metrics developed under this section. There is appropriated to the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, to remain available until expended, for the purpose of carrying out this section.