Cancer Care Payment Reform Act of 2017 [S.463]
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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
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S.463: Cancer Care Payment Reform Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cornyn
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S1502-1504) on 02/28/2017
ACE Kids Act of 2017 Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2017 [S.428]
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ACE Kids Act of 2017 Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2017 This bill allows a state Medicaid program or child health plan to provide coordinated care through enhanced pediatric health homes (EPHHs) for children who have complex medical conditions. Pursuant to an agreement with a state, an EPHH offers: (1) comprehensive pediatric care management, (2) care coordination and health promotion, (3) comprehensive transitional care, (4) patient and family support, (5) referrals to community and social support services, (6) the use of health information
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S.428: ACE Kids Act of 2017 Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/16/2017
HB-1155: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andy Biggs
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/03/2017
You have voted HB-1155: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs..
Medicaid HOME Improvement Act Medicaid Home Owner Maximum Equity Improvement Act [HB-1082]
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Medicaid HOME Improvement Act Medicaid Home Owner Maximum Equity Improvement Act This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to disallow a state from using, for purposes of determining Medicaid eligibility for long-term care assistance, a home equity limit that exceeds the statutory minimum. Current law allows a state Medicaid program to set its maximum home equity limit at any amount between a specified range. The bill disallows a program from setting its limit above the amount that represents, under current law, the bottom
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HB-1082: Medicaid HOME Improvement Act Medicaid Home Owner Maximum Equity Improvement Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Brett Guthrie
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/17/2017
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2017 [HB-1095]
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Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2018-FY2019 appropriations to: the Department of Health and Human Services for grants to domestic treatment centers for the costs of services in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of both physical and psychological effects), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs; and the President for grants to foreign treatment centers
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HB-1095: Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. James McGovern
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/17/2017
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans. [HB-1005]
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To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans. This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) (Sec. 1) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into an agreement or a contract with each state home to pay for adult day health care for a veteran eligible for, but not receiving, nursing home care. The veteran must need such care specifically for a service-connected disability or
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HB-1005: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 05/24/2017
Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2017 [HB-1020]
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Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to declare that nothing in that Act or in the Public Health Service Act prevents or restricts, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may not prevent or restrict, the manufacture, importation, distribution, or sale of drugs or medical devices that are intended for terminally ill patients, have been the subject of a clinical trial, and have not been approved by the FDA. The FDA may not require the disclosure, collection, or reporting of certain
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HB-1020: Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. H. Morgan Griffith
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/17/2017
State Veterans Home Adult Day Health Care Improvement Act of 2017 [S.324]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
State Veterans Home Adult Day Health Care Improvement Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into an agreement with each state home to pay for medical supervision model adult day health care for a veteran for whom the home is not receiving VA nursing home care payments. Such payment shall constitute payment in full for such care. The veteran must need such care either specifically for a service-connected disability, or, if not specifically for one, the veteran must have a service-connected disability
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S.324: State Veterans Home Adult Day Health Care Improvement Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Became Public Law No: 115-159. (txt | Pdf) on 03/27/2018
Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act [S.309]
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Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act This bill establishes a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs Plan demonstration program, through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall target home- and community-based services to low-income seniors who are unable to perform two or more activities of daily living and are eligible for Medicare Advantage (MA) but not for Medicaid. An MA plan that is selected to participate in the program must use certain payments from CMS to provide those beneficiaries with services and supports
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S.309: Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/06/2017
Right to Try Act of 2017 [HB-878]
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Right to Try Act of 2017 This bill requires the federal government to allow unrestricted manufacturing, distribution, prescribing, and dispensing of experimental drugs, biological products, and medical devices that are: (1) intended to treat a patient who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and (2) authorized by state law. The federal government must allow unrestricted possession and use of such treatments by patients certified by a physician as having exhausted all other treatment options. A manufacturer, distributor, prescriber, dispenser,
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HB-878: Right to Try Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 03/02/2017
Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2017 [HB-820]
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Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide support to collect the medical specimens and information of children, adolescents, and young adults with selected cancers that have the least effective treatments in order to achieve a better understanding of these cancers and the effects of treatment. The national childhood cancer registry is reauthorized through FY2022 and revised to authorize
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HB-820: Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/03/2017
Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2018 [S.292]
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Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2018 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide support to collect the medical specimens and information of children, adolescents, and young adults with selected cancers that have the least effective treatments in order to achieve a better understanding of these cancers and the effects of treatment. The national childhood cancer registry is reauthorized through FY2022 and revised to authorize
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S.292: Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2018
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Became Public Law No: 115-180. on 06/05/2018
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 [S.253]
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Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 This bill repeals existing caps on Medicare payment for certain outpatient physical-therapy services and speech-language pathology services. Under current law, annual payment for such services is capped at $1,980 in 2017, with specified percentage increases to that limit in subsequent years.
S.253: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure: Cr S596-597; Text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S597) on 02/01/2017
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 [HB-807]
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Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 This bill repeals existing caps on Medicare payment for certain outpatient physical-therapy services and speech-language pathology services. Under current law, annual payment for such services is capped at $1,980 in 2017, with specified percentage increases to that limit in subsequent years.
HB-807: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/10/2017
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2017 [HB-750]
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Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a separate Medicare benefit category for complex rehabilitation technology (CRT) items that: (1) are designed or configured to meet an individual's unique needs and capacities; (2) are primarily used to serve a medical or functional purpose; and (3) require certain services to ensure appropriate design, configuration, and use. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall designate CRT
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HB-750: Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/09/2017
Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017 [S.204]
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Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt, from specified requirements and restrictions under that Act and other laws, the provision of certain unapproved, investigational drugs to a terminally ill patient who has exhausted approved treatment options and is unable to participate in a clinical trial involving the drugs. The manufacturer or sponsor of an eligible investigational drug must report annually to the Food and
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S.204: Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Became Public Law No: 115-176. on 05/30/2018
Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017 [HB-626]
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Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for purposes of determining whether inpatient rehabilitation-facility services are reasonable and necessary under Medicare, to include recreational-therapy services among the therapeutic modalities that constitute an intensive rehabilitation-therapy program.
HB-626: Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Thompson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/02/2017
Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act [HB-676]
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Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act This bill establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, dietary and nutritional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care. Only public or nonprofit institutions may participate. Nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that deliver care in their own
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HB-676: Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Assuming First Sponsorship - Mr. Ellison Asked Unanimous Consent That He May Hereafter Be Considered As The First Sponsor Of H.r. 676, A Bill Originally Introduced By Former Representative Conyers, For Purposes Of Adding Cosponsors And Requesting Reprintings Pursuant To Clause 7 Of Rule Xii. Agreed To Without Objection. on 03/07/2018
Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016. [HJR-27]
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Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016. This joint resolution nullifies the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016, signed by the Mayor of the District on December 19, 2016, and transmitted on January 6, 2017, to Congress pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. The D.C. Act authorizes terminally ill patients to request and to be prescribed medication to end their lives.
HJR-27: Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. Markup Report Cq on 02/13/2017
A joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016. [SJR-4]
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A joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016. This joint resolution nullifies the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016, signed by the Mayor of the District on December 19, 2016, and transmitted on January 6, 2017, to Congress pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. The D.C. Act authorizes terminally ill patients to request and to be prescribed medication to end their lives.
SJR-4: A joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Lee
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 01/12/2017