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Opioid Addiction Risk Transparency Act [S.1049]
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Opioid Addiction Risk Transparency Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require a communication plan that is part of a medication's risk evaluation and mitigation strategy to include informing health care providers about the meaning of terms related to properties of the medication described in the labeling.
Sponsored by: Sen. Margaret Hassan
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/04/2017
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [HB-2392]
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals to implement and submit to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a staffing plan that complies with specified minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by unit. Hospitals must post a notice regarding nurse-to-patient ratios in each unit and maintain records of actual ratios for each shift in each unit. HHS must adjust Medicare payments to hospitals to cover additional costs incurred in providing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/18/2017
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Right to Try Act [HB-2368]
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Right to Try Act This bill requires the federal government to allow unrestricted manufacturing, distribution, prescribing, and dispensing of experimental drugs, biological products, and medical devices that are authorized by state law and intended to treat terminally ill patients. Patients receiving these treatments must be certified by a physician as having exhausted all other treatment options and as being at greater risk from their medical condition than the treatment. The physician must explain the treatment to the patient, including that the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 06/07/2017
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Expressing support for the designation of the week of May 6 through May 12, 2017, as National Nurses Week. [HR-315]
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Expressing support for the designation of the week of May 6 through May 12, 2017, as National Nurses Week. Expresses support for the goals and ideals, and the designation, of National Nurses Week. Recognizes the contributions of nurses to the U.S. health care system.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [S.1063]
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require hospitals to implement and submit to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a staffing plan that complies with specified minimum nurse-to-patient ratios by unit. Hospitals must post a notice regarding nurse-to-patient ratios in each unit and maintain records of actual ratios for each shift in each unit. HHS must adjust Medicare payments to hospitals to cover additional costs incurred in providing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/04/2017
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A resolution expressing support for the designation of April 2017 as "National Donate Life Month". [SR-152]
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A resolution expressing support for the designation of April 2017 as "National Donate Life Month". Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Donate Life Month and for promoting awareness of organ donation. Encourages states, localities, and the territories and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations designating April 2017 as National Donate Life Month. Salutes individuals who have supported, promoted, and encouraged organ donation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S2728; Text: Cr S2726) on 05/03/2017
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Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights [HB-2322]
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Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that an Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights is printed on signage in accessible formats and displayed prominently and conspicuously in each VA prosthetics and orthotics clinic. VA employees who work at such clinics, as well as patient advocates of veterans who receive care there, must receive training on such Bill of Rights. The VA shall conduct outreach to inform veterans of such Bill of Rights. Such Bill of Rights shall include
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Johnson
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 04/17/2018
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Expressing support for designation of May as "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month". [HR-304]
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Expressing support for designation of May as "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month". Expresses support for: (1) the designation of National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, and (2) investment in asthma research. Salutes health care professionals and researchers who work on asthma and allergies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Yvette Clarke
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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School-Based Respiratory Health Management Act [HB-2285]
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School-Based Respiratory Health Management Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the conditions under which the Department of Health and Human Services, in making asthma-related grants, gives preference to a state. A preference is given to states that require elementary and secondary schools to have: (1) on the premises during operating hours at least one individual trained in the administration of rescue medications for allergies and reversible lower airway disorders, and (2) an allergies and reversible lower airway disorders
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Valadao
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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Audiology Patient Choice Act of 2017 [HB-2276]
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Audiology Patient Choice Act of 2017 This bill amends expands the definition of "physician," for purposes of the Medicare program, to include an audiologist with respect to the furnishing of audiology services. Additionally, the bill expands the scope of audiology services covered under Medicare and allows payment for such services regardless of whether an enrollee is under the care of (or referred by) a physician or other health care provider or whether the services are provided under the supervision of a physician or other health care provider.
Sponsored by: Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/11/2017
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HEART Act of 2017 Helping Expand Access to Rural Telemedicine Act of 2017 [HB-2291]
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HEART Act of 2017 Helping Expand Access to Rural Telemedicine Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Kilmer
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/11/2017
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Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017 [HB-2267]
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Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 [S.992]
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Veteran Overmedication Prevention Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the deaths of all covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A "covered veteran" is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death. The
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 05/01/2017
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Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 [S.989]
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Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include pediatric subspecialties in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Psychiatrists who are pediatric subspecialists are included in behavioral and mental health professionals. (These amendments make pediatric subspecialists, including psychiatrists, eligible for the NHSC fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the NHSC Scholarship
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Reed
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/28/2017
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Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoggle Act [HB-2224]
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Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoggle Act This bill requires that the Medicare hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas be calculated using state-specific, rather than national, budget neutrality. (The Medicare hospital wage index is used to calculate geographic adjustments to Medicare reimbursements.)
Sponsored by: Rep. David Roe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017 [HB-2202]
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Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make certain doctors of chiropractic (chiropractors) eligible for appointment to the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. To be appointed, a chiropractor must be eligible for licensure in a majority of the states or approved by a body acceptable to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS and the Surgeon General must ensure that such chiropractors are trained, equipped, and otherwise
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gene Green
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/28/2017
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Veterans Access to Care Act [S.968]
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Veterans Access to Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to automatically designate medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as health professional shortage areas. Individuals may not participate in both the VA's Health Professionals Education Assistance Program and the National Health Service Corps scholarship or loan repayment programs. The Department of Health and Human Services, in carrying out the National Health Service Corps Program, must consult with the VA regarding health professional shortage areas
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/27/2017
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Medical Device Guardians Act [HB-2163]
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Medical Device Guardians Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Louise Slaughter
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/05/2017
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VETS Act of 2017 Veterans E-Health and Telemedicine Support Act of 2017 [HB-2123]
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VETS Act of 2017 Veterans E-Health and Telemedicine Support Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill allows a licensed health care professional of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to practice his or her profession using telemedicine at any location in any state regardless of where the professional or patient is located if the covered health care professional is using telemedicine to provide VA medical or health services. Such authority shall apply to a covered health care professional regardless of whether the covered health care professional or patient
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ann Kuster
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 11/08/2017
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A resolution supporting the designation of April 2017 as "Parkinson's Awareness Month". [SR-140]
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A resolution supporting the designation of April 2017 as "Parkinson's Awareness Month". Designates April 2017 as Parkinson's Awareness Month. Expresses support for research to find better treatments and a cure for Parkinson's disease. Recognizes individuals living with Parkinson's disease who participate in clinical trials. Commends the dedication of organizations, volunteers, researchers, and millions of individuals across the United States working to improve the quality of life for individuals living with Parkinson's disease and their families.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Isakson
Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S2536; Text: Cr S2534) on 04/25/2017