MEDPAC STUDY AND REPORT ON IMPROVING CHRONIC CARE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.

SEC. 150. MEDPAC STUDY AND REPORT ON IMPROVING CHRONIC CARE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.(a) Study.—The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (in this section referred to as the “Commission”) shall conduct a study on the feasability and advisability of establishing a Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network that would serve as a standing network of providers testing new models of care coordination and other care approaches for chronically ill beneficiaries, including the initiation, operation, evaluation, and, if appropriate, 122 STAT. 2550 expansion of such models to the broader Medicare patient population. In conducting such study, the Commission shall take into account the structure, implementation, and results of prior and existing care coordination and disease management demonstrations and pilots, including the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Project under section 4016 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1395b–1 note) and the chronic care improvement programs under section 1807 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395b–8), commonly known to as “Medicare Health Support”.(b) Report.—Not later than June 15, 2009, the Commission shall submit to Congress a report containing the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).