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Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies Act of 2017 [HB-3271]
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Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to modify provisions relating to Medicare's competitive acquisition program (through which rates are set through a competitive bidding program rather than by an established fee schedule) with respect to diabetic testing strips. Specifically, the bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to: use specified data to determine whether a bid satisfies certain requirements related to volume of coverage with respect
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Medicare Civil and Criminal Penalties Update Act [HB-3245]
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[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Medicare Civil and Criminal Penalties Update Act
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Marketplace Certainty Act [HB-3258]
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[Healthcare ]
Marketplace Certainty Act
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Hold Congress Accountable on Healthcare Act [HB-3253]
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Hold Congress Accountable on Healthcare Act This bill makes Members of Congress ineligible for health plans offered through health insurance exchanges, health plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, federal health care programs, and federal health coverage subsidies if legislation is enacted that changes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and increases the rate of individuals without health coverage.
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Adoption Promotion Act of 2017 [HB-3231]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
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Adoption Promotion Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that pregnancy options counseling funded through family planning projects includes adoption counseling and is provided by licensed social workers or counselors who have knowledge and experience in adoption practice. Training for personnel to carry out family planning programs must include training on the adoption process. Research related to family planning and population must include: (1) collection of data
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CARE Act of 2017 Critical Access and Rural Equity Act of 2017 [HB-3224]
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CARE Act of 2017 Critical Access and Rural Equity Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to specify that, for purposes of determining Medicare payment and reasonable costs for both inpatient and outpatient critical access hospital (CAH) services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall recognize as allowable costs those related to specified emergency, diagnostic, anesthetist, community health, and off-campus clinical services. Furthermore, in determining payment and reasonable costs for both
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Recognizing the importance and effectiveness of trauma-informed care. [HR-443]
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Recognizing the importance and effectiveness of trauma-informed care. Recognizes the importance, effectiveness, and need for trauma-informed care among existing federal programs and agencies. (Trauma-informed care takes into account a patient's history of trauma in the design of the patient's treatment.) Encourages the use of trauma-informed care within the federal government.
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Ambulance Medicare Budget and Operations Act of 2017 [HB-3236]
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[Budget and Spending ]
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[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Ambulance Medicare Budget and Operations Act of 2017
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CHIP Mental Health Parity Act [HB-3192]
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CHIP Mental Health Parity Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans to cover mental health and substance use disorder services. Financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to such services shall not differ from those applicable to other medical services under CHIP.
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SAME Act of 2017 States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017 [S.1545]
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SAME Act of 2017 States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place. Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced
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Commonsense Competition and Access to Health Insurance Act [S.1546]
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Commonsense Competition and Access to Health Insurance Act This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to permit states to enter into interstate health care choice compacts under which qualified health plans may be offered in the small group market in all participating states while being subject to the laws and regulations of only the state in which the plan was written or issued. (Currently, interstate health care choice compacts apply to only qualified health plans in the individual market.) The Department of Health and Human
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HELLPP Act Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-saving access to Podiatric Physicians Act [S.1533]
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HELLPP Act Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-saving access to Podiatric Physicians Act This bill adds podiatrists as covered physicians under the Medicaid program. Documentation requirements related to Medicare coverage of therapeutic shoes for individuals with diabetes are revised. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject payments made to a Medicaid provider or supplier to a continuing levy for federal taxes owed by the provider or supplier.
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Genetically Engineered Salmon Labeling Act [S.1528]
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[Science ]
[Consumer Protection ]
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Genetically Engineered Salmon Labeling Act This bill requires the market name of genetically engineered (commonly called "genetically modified" or "GMO") salmon to include "Genetically Engineered" or "GE" in front of the existing market name. The Department of Health and Human Services must ensure that an independent scientific and technical advisory organization reports on: (1) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) environmental assessment of AquAdvantage Salmon, and (2) each FDA environmental assessment in support of approval of a new animal
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SMART Child Act of 2017 Screen, Manage, Address, and Remove Toxins for Children Act of 2017 [HB-3182]
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[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
SMART Child Act of 2017 Screen, Manage, Address, and Remove Toxins for Children Act of 2017
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Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act [S.1530]
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[Consumer Protection ]
Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act
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Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act [HB-3181]
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Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish an Advance Directive Certification Program. Under the program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall grant accreditation to advance directive vendors that meet specified accreditation criteria. CMS shall establish procedures for an eligible beneficiary to register the adoption of a certified advance directive under the program. Beneficiary registration in the program shall be optional, but each eligible
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Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017 [HB-3178]
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Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017 TITLE I--IMPROVEMENTS IN PROVISION OF HOME INFUSION THERAPY (Sec. 101) This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to temporarily provide for transitional Medicare payment with respect to certain home infusion services furnished on or after January 1, 2019. Under current law, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required to establish a permanent payment system with respect to such services furnished on or after January 1, 2021. (Sec. 102) The bill extends the Medicare
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain orthotist's and prosthetist's clinical notes under Medicare be treated as part of the patient's medical record. [HB-3171]
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain orthotist's and prosthetist's clinical notes under Medicare be treated as part of the patient's medical record.
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Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2017 [HB-3173]
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Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2017
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Medicare IVIG Demonstration Extension Act of 2017 [HB-3172]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Medicare IVIG Demonstration Extension Act of 2017