Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2021
This bill allows states to receive federal Medicaid payment for services provided to foster care children in qualified residential treatment programs (i.e., programs with trauma-informed treatment models that address the needs of children with serious emotional or behavioral disorders or disturbances).
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that children 
  in foster care who are placed in a qualified residential treatment 
                   program are eligible for Medicaid.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for 
Children in Foster Care Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE WHO ARE PLACED IN A 
              QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAM FROM THE MEDICAID 
              IMD EXCLUSION.

    (a) In General.--Section 1905(a)(31)(B) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1396d(a)(31)(B)) is amended by inserting ``and services 
provided to any individual who is a child in foster care under the 
responsibility of a State who has been placed in a child care 
institution that is a qualified residential treatment program (as 
defined in section 472(k)(4)), without regard to whether payments are 
made on behalf of such child under section 472'' after ``section 
1915(l)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on October 1, 2021, and shall apply with respect to items 
and services furnished in calendar quarters beginning on or after that 
date.
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Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2021
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that children in foster care who are placed in a qualified residential treatment program are eligible for Medicaid.
Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2021
Sen. Burr, Richard