to positively influence patient behavior, improve patient safety and health outcomes, and help reduce unnecessary health care expenditures, but action needs to be taken to help the initiative meet the program’s goals. 3. Promoting patient access to personal medical claim information, including a patient’s providers, prescriptions, tests, and diagnoses, through the use of mobile health record applications (a) Medicare Title XVIII of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 1899C. Mobile Access to Personal Medical Information Program (a) Establishment (1) In general Not later than January 1, 2020, the Secretary shall establish a program to be known as the Mobile Access to Personal Medical Information Program (in this section referred to as the Program ) for purposes of creating a developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables individuals entitled to benefits under part A or enrolled under part B to connect their claims data to the applications, services, and research programs they trust while allowing such individuals to retain full control over how the copy of the data they receive can be used and by whom. The Program shall provide such an individual access to the personal medical claim information of the individual through a mobile health record application of the individual’s choice approved by the Secretary under subsection (b). Such information shall be made available through such application in a manner similar to how such information is made available under the Blue Button 2.0 program (or a successor program). (2) Encouraging use of program In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall consider establishing methods for encouraging individuals described in paragraph (1) to access their personal medical claim information under the Program. Such methods may include— (A) providing individuals described in paragraph (1) access to a one-time financial incentive to download for free or at a discounted price a CMS-approved mobile health