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US Congress 115th Congress
Improving the Treatment of the U.S. Territories Under Federal Health Programs Act of 2017 [HB-2404]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Improving the Treatment of the U.S. Territories Under Federal Health Programs Act of 2017
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Relating to a waiver for certain programs from youth camp licensing. [HB-492]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to a waiver for certain programs from youth camp licensing.
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Concussion Awareness and Education Act of 2017 [HB-2360]
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[Healthcare ]
[Science ]
[Sports ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Mental Health ]
Concussion Awareness and Education Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) establish and oversee a national system to accurately determine the incidence of sports-related concussions among youth, and (2) begin implementation of such system within one year of this bill's enactment. The data collected shall include: the incidence of sports related concussions in individuals 5 through 21 years of age; demographic information of the injured individuals; pre-existing
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Drug Diversion and Counterfeit Crackdown Act of 2017 [HB-2376]
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[Public Safety ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Healthcare ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Drug Diversion and Counterfeit Crackdown Act of 2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Allowing exemptions from certificate of need to develop and operate nursing home in county without skilled nursing facility [SB-361]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Nonprofit ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the certificate of need standards relative to the limitation only allowing the development of a nursing home in any county which is currently without a skilled-nursing facility by a nonprofit community group.
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [HB-2392]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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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Robin Danielson Feminine Hygiene Product Safety Act of 2017 [HB-2379]
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[Science ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Children and Youth ]
Robin Danielson Feminine Hygiene Product Safety Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institutes of Health to conduct or support research on the extent to which components (including contaminants and substances used as fragrances, colorants, dyes, and preservatives) in feminine hygiene products pose health risks to women who use the products or to the children of women who use the products during or before pregnancy.
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FDA Reporting Transparency and Accountability Act [S.1062]
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[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
FDA Reporting Transparency and Accountability Act
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Right to Try Act [HB-2368]
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[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
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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Opioid Addiction Risk Transparency Act [S.1049]
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[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
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.
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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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[Public Health ]
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.
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Enhanced Clinical Trial Design Act of 2017 [S.1048]
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[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Science ]
Enhanced Clinical Trial Design Act of 2017
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BENEFIT Act of 2017 Better Empowerment Now to Enhance Framework and Improve Treatments Act of 2017 [S.1052]
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[Mental Health ]
BENEFIT Act of 2017 Better Empowerment Now to Enhance Framework and Improve Treatments Act of 2017
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Minority Diabetes Initiative Act [HB-2351]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities. HHS must ensure that these grants cover a variety of diabetes-related health care services, including routine care for diabetic patients, public education on diabetes prevention and control, eye care, foot care, and treatment for kidney disease and other complications of diabetes.
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Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2017 [S.1063]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
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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Save Women's Preventive Care Act [S.1045]
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[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
Save Women's Preventive Care Act
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Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017 [S.1044]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2017 This bill modifies requirements regarding access to preferred pharmacies (i.e., pharmacies that provide reduced enrollee cost sharing for prescription drugs) under a Medicare prescription drug plan (PDP). Specifically, if a Medicare PDP has, in its pharmacy network, one or more preferred pharmacies located in a health shortage or medically underserved area, then the PDP sponsor must allow any pharmacy in the health shortage or medically underserved area to join the preferred pharmacy network
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Simon’s Law; life sustaining procedures [HB-2588]
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[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit health care facilities and others from withholding life-sustaining procedures from a minor patient without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian.
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the accreditation of osteopathic residency training programs for purposes of graduate medical education payments under the Medicare program. [HB-2373]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Social Security ]
[Education ]
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the accreditation of osteopathic residency training programs for purposes of graduate medical education payments under the Medicare program. This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to modify, with respect to graduate medical education (GME) payments under the Medicare program, provisions related to "approved medical residency training programs" by: (1) specifying that such programs include osteopathic community residency training programs; and (2) replacing
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CONNECT for Health Act of 2017 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2017 [S.1016]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Health ]
CONNECT for Health Act of 2017 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2017