Senate Health Bill Funds Extenders, Strengthens Mental Health Parity

The Senate health committee’s latest health cost-containment legislation adds funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, teaching health center Graduate Medical Education and special diabetes programs through fiscal 2024, as well as including a new section to strengthen mental health parity and additional drug pricing provisions. Funding for the so-called health extenders runs out in fiscal 2020. The House Energy & Commerce Committee had discussed funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps and teaching...