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Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2082) Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish grant programs to provide for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated followup care once newborn screening has been conducted, to reauthorize programs under part A of title XI of such Act, and for other purposes. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Associate Administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to awards grants to eligible entities to: (1) provide education and training in newborn screening and congenital, genetic, and metabolic disorders to health care professionals and newborn screening laboratory personnel; (2) develop educational programs about newborn screening for parents, families, and patient advocacy and support groups; and (3) establish operate a system to assess and coordinate [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo provide for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how officials can: (1) ensure interagency coordination and communication and minimize overlap regarding efforts to address tick-borne diseases; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations addressing such diseases; (3) ensure interagency coordination and communication with constituency groups; (4) ensure that a broad spectrum of scientific viewpoints is represented in public heath [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2502-2503) Bill TextA bill to provide for the regulation and oversight of laboratory tests. 3/1/2007--Introduced. Laboratory Test Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to deem a laboratory-developed test that is a direct-to-consumer test to be a prescription test if it satisfies the requirements of this Act. Deems any laboratory-developed test to be a medical device.Sets forth labeling and registration requirements for laboratory-developed tests.Requires the manufacturer of a laboratory-developed test that has not been cleared or approved for its intended use to submit the analytical and clinical validity of the test for its intended use to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary to include such information in a public database.Requires the Secretary to provide guidance to: (1) facilitate the use of reviews of the peer-reviewed biomedical literature and other information and data about the clinical validity [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextA bill to establish a competitive grant program to build capacity in veterinary medical education and expand the workforce of veterinarians engaged in public health practice and biomedical research. 3/2/2007--Introduced. Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to veterinary schools or institutions offering training for veterinarians to improve public health preparedness through increasing the number of veterinarians in the workforce. Requires the Secretary to give preference to applicants that demonstrate a comprehensive approach by involving more than one such school or institution.
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Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2905) Bill TextA bill to prohibit human cloning and protect stem cell research. 3/8/2007--Introduced. Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2007 - Prohibits: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of human cloning in the United States or elsewhere; or (3) exporting to a foreign country an unfertilized blastocyst if such country does not prohibit human cloning. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the relevant congressional committees on: (1) actions taken to enforce such prohibitions; (2) actions of state attorneys general to enforce similar state laws; (3) coordination of federal, state, and local enforcement; and (4) international laws relating to human cloning. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require research involving nuclear transplantation to be conducted in accordance [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/10/2007 - Received in the House. Bill TextAn act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize drug and device user fees and ensure the safety of medical products, and for other purposes. 5/9/2007--Passed Senate amended. (There are 2 other summaries) Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act - Title I: Prescription Drug User Fees - (Sec. 101) - Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 - (Sec. 102) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to set forth as a purpose that authorized prescription drug fees be dedicated toward expediting the drug development process, the process for the review of human drug applications, and postmarket drug safety. Sets forth reporting requirements, including requiring the Secretary of Human Services (the Secretary) to present to Congress recommendations developed for achieving certain goals for the review process of human drug applications and for reauthorization of user [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/27/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of certain physician pathology services under the Medicare Program. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Physician Pathology Services Continuity Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with regard to a laboratory-furnished technical component of certain physician pathology services, to treat such component as a service for which payment shall be made to the laboratory, and not as an inpatient hospital or hospital outpatient service for which payment is made to the hospital.
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Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4034-4035) Bill TextTo provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. 2/27/2007--Introduced. American Health Security Act of 2007 - Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Requires each state health security program to prohibit the sale of health insurance in that state that duplicates benefits provided under the program. Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies,[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Subcommittee Hearings Held. Bill TextTo establish a competitive grant program to build capacity in veterinary medical education and expand the workforce of veterinarians engaged in public health practice and biomedical research. 2/28/2007--Introduced. Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to veterinary schools or institutions offering training for veterinarians to improve public health preparedness through increasing the number of veterinarians in the workforce. Requires the Secretary to give preference to applicants that demonstrate a comprehensive approach by involving more than one such school or institution.
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Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations, and for other purposes. 4/8/2008--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services in order to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytological preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; (2) maintain a record of program results; (3) require [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Access to health care, Accreditation (Medical care), Administrative remedies, Adoption, Afghanistan, Aged, Aid to dependent children, Ambulances, Ambulatory care, Anesthetics, Annuities, Appropriations, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Barbiturates, Brain, Budgets, Business, California, Capitation (Medical care), Cardiovascular diseases, Case management, Case mix (Medical care), Cash welfare block grants, Children, Chronically ill, Civil rights, Clinical trials, Clinics, Coinsurance, Collection of accounts, Communication in medicine, Communications, Community health services, Competitive bidding, Conflict of interests, Congregate housing, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Criminal justice, Defense policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Diabetes, Discrimination in medical care, District of Columbia, Drugs, Education, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Estates (Law), Executive departments, Families, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal-state relations, Finance, Foster home care, Genetics, Gifts, Government information, Government procurement, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Group medical practice, Head injuries, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health maintenance organizations, Health policy, Hearing, Higher education, Hospital rates, Hospitals, Housing, Imaging systems in medicine, Indian medical care, Inspectors general, Insurance premiums, Iraq, Iraq compilation, Judicial review, Kidney diseases, Language and languages, Law, Life insurance, Living wills, Long-term care, Lung diseases, Managed care, Marketing, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical ethics, Medical fees, Medical personnel, Medical records, Medical savings accounts, Medical statistics, Medical supplies, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Medigap, Mental depression, Mental health services, Middle East and North Africa, Military occupation, Military operations, Minorities, Minority health, Nuclear medicine, Nursing homes, Obesity, Oxygen, Pensions, Performance measurement, Pharmacies, Physical examinations, Physicians, Politics and government, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychotropic drugs, Public contracts, Quality of care, Rural affairs, Rural health, Sexual abstinence, South Asia, Speech disorders, Standards, State and local government, Subsidies, Technology, Telecommunication, Telemedicine, Terminal care, Terrorism, Translating and interpreting, Transportation, Veterans, Veterans' medical care, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 07/15/2008 - Vetoed by President. Bill TextTo amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. 7/15/2008--Public Law. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 24, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 - Title I: Medicare - Subtitle A: Beneficiary Improvements - Part 1: Prevention, Mental Health, and Marketing - (Sec. 101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, to cover additional preventive services. Includes body mass index and end-of-life planning among initial [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/27/2008 - Signed by President. Bill TextTo make technical corrections regarding the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007. 5/27/2008--Public Law. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Public Health Service Act to make technical corrections to the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007. Revises the authorizations of appropriations from FY2008-FY2012 to FY2009-FY2013.
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Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2983; text as passed Senate: CR S2983; text of measure as introduced: CR S2980) Bill TextA concurrent resolution to make technical corrections in the enrollment of the bill S. 1858. 4/14/2008--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Directs the Secretary of the Senate to make corrections in the enrollment of S. 1858 (Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2008). Revises the authorizations of appropriations from FY2008-FY2012 to FY2009-FY2013.
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Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 3/14/2008 S2159-2163) Bill TextA bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to health care under the Medicare program for beneficiaries residing in rural areas. 3/13/2008--Introduced. Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend Medicare flex grants; (2) revise requirements for the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program; (3) permit rebasing for sole community hospitals; (4) revise the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals; (5) eliminate temporarily the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustment cap; and (6) extend and revise the Medicare hold harmless provision under the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (HOPD) services for certain hospitals.Revises requirements for: (1) the treatment of rural sole community hospitals and Medicare dependent, small rural hospitals under the PPS for HOPD services; (2) the treatment [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 12/29/2007 - Signed by President. Bill TextA bill to amend titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act to extend provisions under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP programs, and for other purposes. 12/29/2007--Public Law. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.) Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 - (Sec. 101) Title I: Increase in Physician Payment Update; Extension of the Physician Quality Reporting System - (Sec. 101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) increase the physician payment update; (2) revise the Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund, adding limitations on expenditures; and (3) extend through 2009 the physician quality reporting system Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to provide for transitional bonus incentive payments for quality reporting in 2008,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Accreditation (Medical care), Administrative procedure, Continuing education, Cytology, Department of Health and Human Services, Education, Employee training, Executive departments, Government information, Government paperwork, Gynecology, Health policy, Higher education, Labor, Law, Medical care, Medical education, Medical tests, Medicine, Quality of care, Rating of employees, Science policy, Student records, Women, Women's health, Women's health services
Latest Action: 12/18/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15920) Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations, and for other purposes. 12/18/2007--Introduced. Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services, to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytological preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; (2) maintain a record of program results; (3) require the laboratory director to consider such results and other [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to preparation for an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic, and for other purposes. 12/6/2007--Introduced. Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) a proposal related to establishing a Pandemic Fund for countries affected by pandemic influenza. Establishes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Policy Coordinating Committee to develop an Interagency Preparedness Plan. Requires the Secretary to strengthen, expand, and coordinate domestic pandemic influenza preparedness activities. Requires states to have an approved state preparedness plan as a condition of receiving funds related to bioterrorism from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Aged, Congressional reporting requirements, Department of Health and Human Services, DNA, Federal advisory bodies, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Health policy, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical tests, Medicare, Medicine, Molecular biology, Proteins, Science policy
Latest Action: 12/03/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve payments under the Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule. 12/3/2007--Introduced. Medicare Advanced Laboratory Diagnostics Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a demonstration project to evaluate new approaches to coding and payment under the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA)) for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; and (2) appoint a standing panel to determine tests to be included in the project and make recommendations derived from project results to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Amends SSA title XVIII with respect to: (1) correction of erroneous determinations and other changes in fee schedule and national limitation amounts for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; (2) issuance of regulations on gap-filling methodology in determining the Medicare fee schedule for such tests; (3) increased transparency of [...] show full description
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