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Latest Action: 09/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10062-10065) Bill TextTo amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish a loan program for eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs. 6/6/2007--Introduced. Physician Workforce and Graduate Medical Education Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a loan program that provides loans to eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs. Requires that such program be an allopathic or osteopathic residency program in family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics or gynecology, or general surgery. Requires the Administrator to give preference to hospitals in a rural area or an urban area that is not a large urban area.
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Latest Action: 10/02/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1149-1155) Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to alleviate critical shortages of physicians in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology, and for other purposes. 6/6/2007--Introduced. High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to critical shortage health facilities for scholarships to individuals agreeing to serve as a physician at such facility after completing residency in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, or obstetrics-gynecology. Excludes such scholarship funds from an individual's gross income.Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to: (1) establish a loan repayment program for individuals agreeing to serve [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/12/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo establish grants to provide health services for improved nutrition, increased physical activity, obesity and eating disorder prevention, and for other purposes. 6/12/2007--Introduced. Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include the treatment of individuals who are overweight, obese, or have eating disorders. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for the training of primary care physicians and other health professions on how to identify, treat, and prevent obesity or eating disorders and aid individuals who are overweight or obese or who suffer from eating disorders. Requires the Secretary, acting though the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for the planning and implementation of programs that promote healthy eating behaviors and physical [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans permit enrollees direct access to services of obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly and without a referral. 1/5/2007--Introduced. Women's Obstetrician and Gynecologist Access Now Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group plan and an issuer offering group coverage to allow a participant or beneficiary the option to seek obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly from a participating provider without a referral. States that this Act does not prevent a plan or issuer from establishing: (1) reasonable requirements for a participating provider to communicate with the participant's or beneficiary's primary care physician and [...] show full description
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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: 06/12/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo establish grants to provide health services for improved nutrition, increased physical activity, obesity and eating disorder prevention, and for other purposes. 6/12/2007--Introduced. Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include the treatment of individuals who are overweight, obese, or have eating disorders. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for the training of primary care physicians and other health professions on how to identify, treat, and prevent obesity or eating disorders and aid individuals who are overweight or obese or who suffer from eating disorders. Requires the Secretary, acting though the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for the planning and implementation of programs that promote healthy eating behaviors and physical [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Budgets, Education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Families, Government lending, Gynecology, Health policy, Higher education, Hospitals, Medical care, Medical education, Medical residents, Medicine, Obstetrics, Rural affairs, Rural health, Surgery, Women
Latest Action: 09/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10062-10065) Bill TextTo amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish a loan program for eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs. 6/6/2007--Introduced. Physician Workforce and Graduate Medical Education Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a loan program that provides loans to eligible hospitals to establish residency training programs. Requires that such program be an allopathic or osteopathic residency program in family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics or gynecology, or general surgery. Requires the Administrator to give preference to hospitals in a rural area or an urban area that is not a large urban area.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Budgets, Case management, Child health, Children, Education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Families, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Finance, Geriatrics, Government contractors, Grants-in-aid, Gynecology, Health policy, Higher education, Income tax, Medical care, Medical education, Medical fees, Medicine, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Physicians, Public contracts, Rural affairs, Rural health, Scholarships, Student loan funds, Surgeons, Surgery, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Women
Latest Action: 10/02/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1149-1155) Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to alleviate critical shortages of physicians in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology, and for other purposes. 6/6/2007--Introduced. High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to critical shortage health facilities for scholarships to individuals agreeing to serve as a physician at such facility after completing residency in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, or obstetrics-gynecology. Excludes such scholarship funds from an individual's gross income.Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to: (1) establish a loan repayment program for individuals agreeing to serve [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative remedies, Admission of nonimmigrants, Advice and consent of the Senate, Aged, AIDS (Disease), Alcoholism, Aliens, Ambulances, Ambulatory care, Anesthetics, Armed forces, Birth control, Block grants, Budgets, Business, Capital budgets, Capitation (Medical care), Case management, Case mix (Medical care), Chemotherapy, Child health, Children, Chronically ill, Cigarettes, Civil rights, Communicable diseases, Communication in medicine, Communications, Community health services, Community organization, Competitive bidding, Comprehensive health care, Computer software, Computers, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer complaints, Consumer organizations, Consumer price indexes, Consumers, Cost control, Cost effectiveness, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Data banks, Defense policy, Dental care, Dentistry, Department of Health and Human Services, Disability insurance, Disabled, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Dislocated workers, Drug abuse, Drug abuse prevention, Drug abuse treatment, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drug therapy, Drug utilization, Drugs, Economic policy, Education, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to research, Federal employees, Federal preemption, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Food, Food safety, Foodborne diseases, Free ports and zones, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Grievance procedures, Gynecology, Hazardous substances, Health care fraud, Health education, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health insurance continuation, Health insurance portability, Health planning, Health policy, Health services administration, Higher education, Home care services, Hospital care, Hospital personnel, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Identification devices, Immigration, Income tax, Inspectors general, Insurance premiums, Interstate relations, Job training, Labor, Labor unions, Law, Licenses, Long-term care insurance, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical ethics, Medical fees, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical laboratories, Medical malpractice, Medical research, Medical residents, Medical screening, Medical statistics, Medical supplies, Medical technology, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, Midwives, Military dependents, Military medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Nurse practitioners, Nurses, Nursing education, Nursing homes, Nutrition, Obstetrics, Occupational health and safety, Ombudsman, Patients' rights, Pediatrics, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Physicians' assistants, Politics and government, Potable water, Prescription pricing, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Preventive medicine, Product safety, Prosecution, Public contracts, Public health, Public health personnel, Quality of care, Railroad employees, Regional medical programs, Research centers, Rural affairs, Rural health, School health programs, Science policy, Sexually transmitted diseases, Smokeless tobacco, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State budgets, State politics and government, Tax credits, Tax rates, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Tobacco tax, Trade, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Urban affairs, Vending machines, Violence, Vital statistics, Vocational rehabilitation, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Welfare, Welfare fraud, Women
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
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Collective bargaining, Consumer education, Consumers, Employee health benefits, Families, Finance, Gynecology, Health insurance, Health policy, Labor, Labor contracts, Maternal health services, Medical care, Medicine, Obstetrics, Physicians, Standards, Surgeons, Women, Women's health, Women's health services
Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans permit enrollees direct access to services of obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly and without a referral. 1/5/2007--Introduced. Women's Obstetrician and Gynecologist Access Now Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group plan and an issuer offering group coverage to allow a participant or beneficiary the option to seek obstetrical and gynecological physician services directly from a participating provider without a referral. States that this Act does not prevent a plan or issuer from establishing: (1) reasonable requirements for a participating provider to communicate with the participant's or beneficiary's primary care physician and [...] show full description
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