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Federal
US Congress 115th Congress

Improving Access to Maternity Care Act [S.783]
Improving Access to Maternity Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to identify maternity care health professional target areas, which are areas within health professional shortage areas that have a shortage of maternity care health professionals, for purposes of assigning maternity care health professionals to those areas. HRSA must collect and publish data comparing the availability of and need for maternity care health services in health professional shortage (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Edward Markey Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/30/2017

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Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017 [S.781]
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to shield a health care professional from liability under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer in response to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services. This protection from liability does not apply (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/30/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Prescription drug price transparency. [SB-487]
Prescription drug price transparency. Requires every manufacturer of a prescription drug that is made available in the Commonwealth and has a wholesale acquisition price of $10,000 or more for a single course of treatment to report to the Commissioner no later than July 1 of each year information related to the cost of developing, manufacturing, and marketing the prescription drug; any changes in the average wholesale price and average wholesale acquisition cost of the prescription drug; the amount of profits derived from sale of the prescription (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger Left In Education And Health on 12/02/2016

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Health care; plan to increase transparency in delivery, etc. [SB-394]
Health care transparency. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop a plan to increase transparency in the administration and delivery of health care by agencies of the Commonwealth or health care providers who have entered into an agreement or contract with an agency of the Commonwealth.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Kenneth Alexander Left In Education And Health on 12/02/2016

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council; established. [SB-20]
Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council. Establishes the Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council (Council) as an advisory council in the executive branch. The bill requires the Council to advise and make recommendations to the Department of Medical Assistance Services on reforms to the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance that would increase the quality of care while containing costs through a patient-centered medical home system. The bill defines a patient-centered medical home as a team approach to providing health care that (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley Left In Finance on 12/02/2016

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Seniors' Health Care Choice Act of 2017 [HB-1845]
Seniors' Health Care Choice Act of 2017 This bill creates a special Medicare enrollment period for individuals enrolled in, or transitioning out of, continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA).

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lloyd Smucker Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/12/2017

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State (Texas)
Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session

Honoring the emergency room staff members who treated the police officers wounded in the shooting in Dallas on July 7, 2016. [HR-1311]
Honoring the emergency room staff members who treated the police officers wounded in the shooting in Dallas on July 7, 2016.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rafael Anchia Reported Enrolled on 05/05/2017

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State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Excluding mobile x-ray services from health care provider tax [SB-46]
Excluding mobile x-ray services from health care provider tax

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan Ferns Filed For Introduction on 02/08/2017

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Prescription drugs; price transparency. [HB-1113]
Prescription drug price transparency. Requires every manufacturer of a prescription drug that is made available in the Commonwealth and has a wholesale acquisition price of $10,000 or more for a single course of treatment to report to the Commissioner no later than July 1 of each year information related to the cost of developing, manufacturing, and marketing the prescription drug; any changes in the average wholesale price and average wholesale acquisition cost of the prescription drug; the amount of profits derived from sale of the prescription (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Hugo Left In Commerce And Labor on 12/01/2016

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Federal
US Congress 115th Congress

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017 [HB-1822]
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to shield a health care professional from liability under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer in response to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services. This protection from liability does not apply (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Marsha Blackburn Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 04/21/2017

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Fairness for Our Hospitals Act of 2017 [HB-1831]
Fairness for Our Hospitals Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow a hospital that meets specified criteria and is located in a state with no rural areas to be considered a Medicare-dependent hospital. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall establish and implement a process for reimbursing impacted hospitals for any underpayments resulting from this bill's implementation.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Rochester Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/11/2017

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State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists [SB-36]
Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Beach Chapter 76, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 on 05/23/2017

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Federal
US Congress 115th Congress

Cancer Care Payment Reform Act of 2017 [HB-1834]
Cancer Care Payment Reform Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish the Oncology Medical Home Demonstration Project, through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall make special payments to participating oncology practices that coordinate patient care and meet other specified requirements. During the first two years of the project, CMS shall pay a care coordination management fee to each such practice. After the third, fourth, and fifth years of the project, CMS shall pay (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Sewell Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/12/2017

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Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act of 2017 [S.787]
Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act of 2017 This bill amends titles XI (General Provisions) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish: (1) a telehealth service model, and (2) Medicare payment rules with respect to certain services tested under the model. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall test Medicare coverage of expanded telehealth services, as defined by the bill, in conjunction with existing models that test the use of accountable care organizations, bundled payments, and other coordinated care (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jon Tester Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/30/2017

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Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2017 [S.794]
Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the process by which Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) issue and reconsider local coverage determinations (LCDs) that: (1) are new, (2) restrict or substantively revise existing LCDs, or (3) are otherwise specified in regulation. (MACs are private insurers that process Medicare claims within specified geographic areas.) Before such an LCD may take effect, the MAC issuing the determination must, with respect (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/30/2017

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 2017 [S.778]
Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 2017 This bill requires a state that receives grant funds under the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) or the controlled substance monitoring program to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to share its PDMP data with other states. The Department of Justice (DOJ) or Department of Health and Human Services may withhold grant funds from a state that fails to comply. To facilitate data sharing among states, the bill directs DOJ to award a grant under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Angus King Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/30/2017

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State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users [SB-47]
Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan Ferns Filed For Introduction on 02/08/2017

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To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. [HB-1832]
To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. This bill authorizes FY2018-FY2023 appropriations for the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/31/2017

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Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017 [HB-1828]
Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow payment under Medicare for certain services furnished to hospice patients by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). With respect to a patient who elects to receive hospice care under Medicare, current law generally limits payment for services that are either duplicative of such care or related to the treatment of the individual's terminal illness. However, current law exempts from this limitation: (1) physicians' (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/12/2017

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State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2017 Regular Session

Relating to care of aborted fetuses [SB-21]
Relating to care of aborted fetuses

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gregory Boso Filed For Introduction on 02/08/2017

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