CA SCA 7 -
Wolk (D)
Public Libraries
12/03/2012 - Introduced
Amends the constitution relative to public libraries. Relates to ad valorem tax rates. Creates a certain exception to a specified limit for a rate imposed by a city, county, city and county, or special district to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund public library facilities. Authorizes the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax imposed for the purpose of funding public libraries.
H 1005 -
Graves T
Defund Obamacare Act
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Relates to the Defund Obamacare Act; deauthorizes appropriation of funds, and rescinds unobligated appropriations, to carry out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
H 1007 -
Grimm
School Asthma Management Plans
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION & WORKFORCE: Referred to Subcommittee on EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMEN. & SECOND. EDUCATION.
Amends Part D of Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to schools for the development of asthma management plans and the purchase of asthma medications and devices for emergency use.
H 1015 -
Pascrell
Medicare and Huntington's Disease
03/06/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical and evaluation criteria for determining disability in a person diagnosed with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.
H 1024 -
McMorris Rodger
Medicare and Medication Therapy Management Programs
03/07/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Part D eligible individuals with single chronic diseases access to services under medication therapy management programs under the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
H 1030 -
DeFazio
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on WORKFORCE PROTECTIONS.
Requires the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act.
H 1037 -
Tonko
Occupational Therapists and Health Service Corps
03/07/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to include occupational therapists as behavioral and mental health professionals for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.
H 105 -
Garrett
Health Insurance
01/03/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the mandate that individuals purchase health insurance.
H 1070 -
Dent
Medicare and Colorectal Cancer Screening
03/12/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive coinsurance under Medicare for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening.
H 1074 -
Olson
Clinical Care and Diabetes
03/12/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to foster more effective implementation and coordination of clinical care for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes.
H 1076 -
Hall R
PPACA and Pass Through Funding
03/12/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for savings to the Federal Government by permitting pass-through funding for State authorized public entity health benefits pools.
H 1099 -
Pitts
Prevention and Public Health Fund Repeal
03/12/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Repeals the Prevention and Public Health Fund.
H 1100 -
Schakowsky
College Campus Mental Health Services
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION & WORKFORCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE TRAINING.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to improve mental and behavioral health services on college campuses.
H 1102 -
Welch
Medicare and Drug Price Negotiation
03/12/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.
H 1125 -
Schrader
Veterinary Student Loan Repayment Programs and Taxes
03/13/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an exclusion for assistance provided to participants in certain veterinary student loan repayment or forgiveness programs.
H 1134 -
Gallego
Veterans in Rural Areas Health Care Pilot Program
04/02/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a grant program and pilot program designed to improve the delivery of health care to veterans residing in rural areas.
H 1136 -
Johnson E
Hate Crime Statistics and Crimes Against Homeless
04/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless.
H 1140 -
Owens
Health Savings Accounts and Dependents Under Age of 27
03/13/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the medical expenses of dependents who have not attained age 27 to be paid from a heath savings account.
H 1146 -
Whitfield
Medical Imaging Examinations
03/13/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act and Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly.
H 1148 -
Reichert
Medicare and Radiologist Assistants
03/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for payment for services of qualified radiologist assistants under the Medicare program.
H 1150 -
Slaughter
Antimicrobials
03/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to preserve the effectiveness of medically important antimicrobials used in the treatment of human and animal diseases.
H 116 -
Holt
Use of Medical Checklists
01/03/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Encourages the use of medical checklists through research, and for other purposes.
H 1173 -
Blumenauer
Medicare and Medicaid and Advance Care Planning
03/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of voluntary advance care planning consultation under Medicare and Medicaid.
H 1178 -
Castor
Graduate Medical Education Partnerships
03/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for graduate medical education partnerships in States with a low physician-resident-to-general-population ratio.
H 1179 -
Courtney
Medicare and Inpatient Hospital Requirement
03/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.
H 1180 -
Crowley
Social Security and Residency Positions
03/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions.
H 1200 -
McDermott
Health Care
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on WORKFORCE PROTECTIONS.
Provides for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.
H 1201 -
Schock
Social Security and Additional Residency Positions
03/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions.
H 1205 -
Walden
Health Insurance and Impact of Taxes
03/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance issuers and group health plans to disclose information regarding how certain taxes and fees impact the amount of premiums.
H 1220 -
Burgess
CFC Epinephrine Inhalers
03/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to allow for the distribution, sale, and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of over-the-counter CFC epinephrine inhalers.
H 1236 -
Jones
Physical Evaluation Board and Behavioral Health
04/05/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, to require the inclusion of a behavioral health professional on any armed forces-related physical evaluation board that considers issues of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, or other mental health condition.
H 1239 -
Cassidy
Social Security and Compassionate Treatment Programs
03/18/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count the negotiated price of drugs provided free or at nominal charge under compassionate treatment programs towards incurred out-of-pocket costs.
H 1248 -
Paulsen
PPACA and Limitations on Certain Health Care Benefits
03/19/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal certain limitations on health care benefits.
H 1250 -
Graves S
Medicare Integrity Program and Recovery Auditors
03/19/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve operations of recovery auditors under the Medicare integrity program and increases transparency and accuracy in audits conducted by contractors.
H 1252 -
Shimkus
National Health Service Corps and Physical Therapists
03/19/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
H 1257 -
DeGette
Medicare and Diabetes
03/19/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the occurrence of diabetes in Medicare beneficiaries by extending coverage under Medicare for medical nutrition therapy services to such beneficiaries with pre-diabetes or with risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes.
H 1263 -
Matsui D
Medicaid and Community Behavioral Health Services
03/19/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Increases access to community behavioral health services for all Americans and improves Medicaid reimbursement for community behavioral health services.
H 1264 -
Norton
DC and Medicaid Assistance Percentage
03/19/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the District of Columbia under the Medicaid Program to 75 percent.
H 1274 -
Whitfield
Diabetes Self-Management Training
03/19/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to diabetes self-management training by authorizing certified diabetes educators to provide diabetes self-management training services, including as Part of telehealth services, under Part B of the Medicare program.
H 1285 -
Buchanan
Hydrocodone and Schedule II
04/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make any substance containing hydrocodone a Schedule II drug.
H 1293 -
King P
Taxes and Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund
03/20/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund.
H 1305 -
Wenstrup
Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program Eligibility
04/25/2013 - Forwarded by subcommittee to full committee (amended).
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to provide clarification regarding eligibility for services under the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program.
H 1309 -
Price T
Pathologists and Electronic Health Record Incentives
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to exclude pathologists from incentive payments and penalties under Medicare and Medicaid relating to the meaningful use of electronic health records.
H 1310 -
Price T
Medicare and Fee-for-Service Items and Services
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medicare payment option for patients and eligible professionals to freely contract, without penalty, for Medicare fee-for-service items and services, while allowing Medicare beneficiaries to use their Medicare benefits.
H 132 -
King S
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
H 1320 -
Neal
Medicare and Colorectal Screening Tests
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve coverage for colorectal screening tests under Medicare.
H 1325 -
Burgess
Medicare and Kidney Transplant Recipients
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare entitlement to immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients.
H 1326 -
Burgess
Hospital Charges and Transparency
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for increased price transparency of hospital information and to provide for additional research on consumer information on charges and out-of-pocket costs.
H 1331 -
Black
Medicare and Medicaid and Electronic Health Records
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends certain requirements and penalties implemented under the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the HITECH Act of 2009, which would otherwise impede eligible professionals from adopting electronic health records to improve patient care.
H 1339 -
Engel
Palliative Care
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs; promotes education in palliative care and hospice; supports the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.
H 1342 -
Fleming
PPACA and Health Savings Accounts Repeal
03/21/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relating to health savings accounts.
H 1355 -
Huelskamp
Federal Nutrition Program Replacement with Block Grants
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION & WORKFORCE: Referred to Subcommittee on EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMEN. & SECOND. EDUCATION.
Replaces certain Federal nutrition programs with a block grant to the States.
H 1366 -
Lynch
Drug Limit Approval
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to modify the approval of any drug containing controlled-release oxycodone hydrochloride to limit such approval to use for the relief of severe-only instead of moderate-to-severe pain.
H 1367 -
Lynch
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.
Amends chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code; ensures program integrity, transparency, and cost savings in the pricing and contracting of prescription drug benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
H 1371 -
McCollum
Indian Health Service Funds
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on BUDGET.
Restores to the Indian Health Service funds sequestered under section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to the extent that the percentage reduction for that program exceeded 2 percent.
H 1379 -
Pierluisi
Medicare and Puerto Rico and Electronic Health Records
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow certain hospitals in Puerto Rico to qualify for incentives for adoption and meaningful use of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology under the Medicare program.
H 1390 -
Smith C
Urban Medicare-Dependent Hospitals
03/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to Urban Medicare-dependent hospitals.
H 1404 -
Salmon
Medicaid and Federal Assistance to State
03/25/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to eliminate the increased Federal medical assistance percentage under the State plan with respect to newly eligible mandatory individuals under Medicaid; provides States with greater flexibility under Medicaid.
H 1416 -
Ellmers
Sequestration and Medicare Part B Drugs
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Terminates application of sequestration to payment for certain physician-administered drugs under part B of the Medicare program.
H 1427 -
Bucshon
Health Care Services and Deceptive Advertising
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on COMMERCE, MANUFACTURING & TRADE.
Ensures that patients receive accurate health care information by prohibiting misleading and deceptive advertising or representation in the provision of health care services, and requires the identification of the license of health care professionals.
H 1428 -
Burgess
Medicare and Kidney Transplant Immunosuppressive Drugs
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare entitlement to immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients.
H 1438 -
Hastings A
Veterans and Medical Expense Reimbursement Exemptions
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on DISABILITY ASSISTANCE AND MEMORIAL AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to exempt reimbursements of certain medical expenses and other payments related to accident, theft, loss, or casualty loss from determinations of annual income with respect to pensions for veterans and surviving spouses and children of veterans.
H 1463 -
Carson A
Armed Forces and Mental Health Assessments
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, to improve the mental health assessments provided to members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation.
H 1464 -
Carson A
Armed Forces and Mental Health Services
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, provides notice to members of the Armed Forces, beginning with recruit basic training and the initial training of officer candidates, regarding the availability of mental health services, helps eliminate perceived stigma associated with seeking and receiving mental health services, and clarifies the extent to which information regarding a member seeking and receiving mental health services may be disclosed.
H 1466 -
Lee B
Social Work Reinvestment Commission
04/10/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Establishes the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy issues associated with recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
H 1472 -
Gingrey
Medicaid Management
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Restores the longstanding partnership between States and the Federal Government in managing the Medicaid program.
H 1473 -
Gingrey
Malpractice and Federal Health Care Laws
04/30/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CONSTITUTION AND CIVIL JUSTICE.
Prevents certain Federal health care laws from establishing health care provider standards of care in medical malpractice cases.
H 1484 -
Huizenga
Medicare Internet Site and Medicare Payment Rates
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make publicly available on the official Medicare Internet site Medicare payment rates for frequently reimbursed hospital inpatient procedures, hospital outpatient procedures, and physicians' services.
H 1487 -
McDermott
Hospitals and Physician Incentive Payment Programs
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Titles XVIII and XI of the Social Security Act to establish an exception from the physician self-referral prohibition and a safe harbor from Federal antikickback and other sanctions for incentive payments made by hospitals to physicians under certain incentive payment programs.
H 1490 -
Miller J
Veterans Affairs and Recording of Patients
05/06/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the recording of a patient in a facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs without the informed consent of the patient.
H 1507 -
Markey Ed
Alzheimer's Disease
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, leading to better care and outcomes for Americans living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
H 1508 -
Markey Ed
Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Provides for the issuance of an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.
H 1517 -
Walberg
Social Security and Medicare Surplus Protection
04/11/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Establishes a Social Security Surplus Protection Account and a Medicare Surplus Protection Account; provides for suspension of investment of amounts held in such Accounts until enactment of legislation providing for investment of the Trust Funds in investment vehicles other than obligations of the United States; and establishes a Social Security and Medicare Part A Investment Commission to make recommendations for alternative forms of investment of the Social Security and Medicare surpluses.
H 1523 -
Rohrabacher
Controlled Substances Act and Marihuana
04/30/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends Controlled Substances Act to provide for a new rule regarding the application of the Act to marihuana.
H 1531 -
DeLauro
Health Plans and Breast Cancer Treatment Coverage
04/12/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Requires that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
H 1552 -
Huizenga
Health Savings Account Minimum Distributions
04/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the transfer of required minimum distributions from a retirement plan to a health savings account.
H 1559 -
Gabbard
Rural Health Care and Preventative Care
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care.
H 1578 -
Pallone
PPACA and Preexisiting Condition Insurance Program
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends section 1101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide additional funds to permit additional individuals to enroll under the preexisting condition insurance program and expand eligibility, to be funded through a temporary increase in the cigarette tax.
H 1588 -
Waxman
Medicare Prescription Drug Rebates
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require drug manufacturers to provide drug rebates for drugs dispensed to low-income individuals under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program.
H 1591 -
Carter
Undiagnosed Diseases Network
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of an undiagnosed diseases network.
H 1599 -
Grijalva
Indian Organizations and Suicide Prevention
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require States and their designees receiving grants for development or implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention strategies to consult with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, tribal organization, and urban Indian organization in the State.
H 1608 -
Owens
Patient Medication Information Regulations
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations regarding the authorship, content, format, and dissemination of Patient Medication Information to ensure patients receive consistent and high-quality information about their prescription medications and are aware of the potential risks and benefits of prescription medications.
H 1615 -
McKinley
Violent Acts and Gaps in Mental Health Services
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Provides for a study by the Institute of Medicine on gaps in mental health services and how these gaps can increase the risk of violent acts.
H 1619 -
Burgess
Alzheimer's Research Bonds
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Authorizes the issuance of United States bonds to fund Alzheimer's research.
H 162 -
Bachmann
Medicaid Managed Care Independent Audits
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Section 1932 of the Social Security Act to require independent audits and actuarial services under Medicaid managed care programs.
H 1661 -
Israel
Medicare and Cancer Patient Treatment Education
04/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management.
H 1666 -
Cleaver
Patient Centered Quality of Care Initiative
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Creates a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research.
H 1698 -
Green G
Medicaid Continuous Enrollment
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for 12-month continuous enrollment of individuals under the Medicaid program and Children's Health Insurance Program.
H 170 -
Green G
Occupational Injury Recording Regulation Revision
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on WORKFORCE PROTECTIONS.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations concerning the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
H 1701 -
Poe
ICD-10 and HIPAA Standards
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services replacing ICD-9 with ICD-10 in implementing the HIPAA code set standards.
H 1702 -
Barber
Veterans Affairs and Transportation of Individuals
05/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care.
H 1703 -
Boustany
Medicaid Long-Term Care Eligibility
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States to reduce the amount of home equity that is exempted for purposes of determining eligibility for long-term care assistance under Medicaid and to eliminate the State Medicaid maintenance of effort requirement established under Public Law 111-148 with respect to eligibility standards to obtain Medicaid assistance for long-term care services.
H 1709 -
Lewis Jo
Nonviolence Education Grants
04/24/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to eligible entities to prevent or alleviate community violence by providing education, mentoring, and counseling services to children, adolescents, teachers, families, and community leaders on the principles and practice of nonviolence.
H 1713 -
Murphy T
Social Security and Medicare Surplus Safeguarding
04/24/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on BUDGET.
Establishes a procedure to safeguard the surpluses of the Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust funds.
H 1714 -
Peters S
Elderly Homeless Veterans and Housing Grant Program
05/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant pilot program to provide housing to elderly homeless veterans.
H 1717 -
Price T
Durable Medical Equipment Market Pricing Program
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a market pricing program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) under Part B of the Medicare program.
H 172 -
Green G
State Childrens Health Insurance Continuous Coverage
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XXI of the Social Security Act to require 12-month continuous coverage under the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
H 1725 -
Cartwright
Veteran Health Care Eligibility and Mental Illness
05/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to provide for unlimited eligibility for health care for mental illnesses for veterans of combat service during certain periods of hostilities and war.
H 173 -
Green G
Medicaid and Continuous Coverage for Children
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to require 12-month continuous coverage for children under Medicaid.
H 1735 -
Cassidy
PPACA and Presidential Participation
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for participation in the Exchange of the President, Vice President, and Executive cabinet officials in same manner as Members of Congress and Congressional staff.
H 1740 -
Forbes
Stem Cell Research
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Intensifies stem cell research showing evidence of substantial clinical benefit to patients.
H 1761 -
Terry
Medicaid and Podiatric Physicians
04/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services delivered by podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to appropriate quality foot and ankle care, and amends Title XVIII of such Act to modify the requirements for diabetic shoes to be included under Medicare.
H 1767 -
Waters
Consumer Credit Reports and Medical Debt
04/26/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on FINANCIAL SERVICES.
Excludes from consumer credit reports medical debt that has been in collection and has been fully paid or settled.
H 1780 -
Camp
PPACA and Federal Employees
05/03/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Provides that the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and Federal employees are those created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or offered through a health insurance exchange.
H 1787 -
Reed T
Medicare Dependent Hospital Program
04/26/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and the increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.
H 1790 -
Bass K
Medicaid and Electronic Health Records
05/03/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend to physician assistants eligibility for Medicaid incentive payments for the adoption and use of certified electronic health records, whether or not such physician assistants practice at a rural health center or Federally qualified health center.
H 1801 -
Higgins
Health Insurance and Oral Anticancer Drugs
05/03/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide for coverage of oral anticancer drugs on terms no less favorable than the coverage provided for anticancer medications administered by a health care provider.
H 1814 -
Schock
Health Coverage Mandates Religious Exemption
04/26/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an additional religious exemption from the individual health coverage mandate.
H 1821 -
Capps
Medicare and Safe Nurse Staffing Levels
05/03/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient protection by establishing safe nurse staffing levels at certain Medicare providers.
H 1827 -
Courtney
Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Act
05/06/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Relates to the Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013; amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through fiscal year 2018 the authorization for certain health care workforce loan repayment programs.
H 183 -
Grimm
Veterans Dog Training Therapy Pilot Program
01/22/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program on dog training therapy.
H 1838 -
Stivers
Medicaid Primary Care Payment Rate
05/06/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate to additional physician providers of primary care services.
H 1841 -
Welch
PPACA and State Health Care Coverage Innovation Waivers
05/06/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Provides for an earlier start for State health care coverage innovation waivers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
H 1845 -
Brady K
Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare
01/10/2013 - Public Law No. 112-242
Provides for a study on issues relating to access to intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) for Medicare beneficiaries in all care settings and a demonstration project to examine the benefits of providing coverage and payment for items and services necessary to administer IVIG in the home for primary immune deficiency diseases.
H 1853 -
Cassidy
Medicaid and Payment to States
05/07/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to reform payment to States under the Medicaid program.
H 1854 -
Chu
Low Income Schools and School Counselors
05/07/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Increases the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and other psychologists qualified to work in schools by low-income local educational agencies.
H 1875 -
Ryan T
Social and Emotional Learning Programming
05/08/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Supports evidence-based social and emotional learning programming.
H 1902 -
Fitzpatrick
Medicare and Post-Mastectomy Items
05/09/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for timely access to post-mastectomy items under Medicare.
H 1907 -
Schakowsky
Direct Care Nurse to Patient Hospital Staffing Ratios
05/09/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals.
H 1908 -
Salmon
PPACA and Premium Tax Credits
05/09/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Repeals certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relating to the premium tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies.
H 1912 -
Coffman
PPACA Exchanges and President
05/09/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for participation in the Exchange of the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, political appointees, and Congressional staff.
H 1915 -
Engel
Gestational Diabetes Grants
05/09/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Provides grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes.
H 1919 -
Latta
Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chain
05/09/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the pharmaceutical distribution supply chain.
H 1920 -
Lewis Jo
Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments
05/09/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a delay in the implementation schedule of the reductions in disproportionate share hospital payments.
H 1938 -
Jones
Armed Forces Members and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
05/09/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury have access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
H 1958 -
Cummings
Wholesalers and Prescription Drug Purchases
05/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Prohibits wholesalers from purchasing prescription drugs from pharmacies, and enhances information and transparency regarding drug wholesalers engaged in interstate commerce.
H 1968 -
Engel
Hospital Energy Cost Reduction Pilot Program
05/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants and loan guarantees to hospitals to carry out projects for the purpose of reducing energy costs and increasing resilience to improve security.
H 1976 -
Pingree
Medicaid and Access to Midwives
05/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide access to certified professional midwives for women enrolled in the Medicaid program.
H 1980 -
Walz
Veterans Affairs and Medical Examinations
05/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from requesting additional medical examinations of veterans who have submitted sufficient medical evidence provided by non-Department medical professionals; improves the efficiency of processing certain claims for disability compensation by veterans.
H 1981 -
Miller Ge
Child Abuse and Neglect in Residential Programs
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.
Requires certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs.
H 1982 -
Reichert
Medicare and Workers Compensation
05/15/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Section 1862 of the Social Security Act with respect to the application of Medicare secondary payer rules to workers' compensation settlement agreements and Medicare set-asides under such agreements.
H 1984 -
Lance
Breast Cancer and Reconstruction
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to raise awareness of, and to educate breast cancer patients anticipating surgery, especially patients who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups, regarding the availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and other options.
H 1990 -
Price T
PPACA Enforcement Prohibition
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
H 1993 -
Forbes
IRS and Employees for Enforcing Health Care
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from hiring new employees to enforce the Federal Government's invasion into the health care lives of American citizens.
H 2001 -
Rangel
Veterans and Telemedicine
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the ability of health care professionals to treat veterans via telemedicine.
H 2003 -
Ryan T
Drug Labeling and Grain or Starch Ingredients
05/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the label of drugs intended for human use to contain a parenthetical statement identifying the source of any ingredient constituting or derived from a grain or starch-containing ingredient.
H 2009 -
Price T
PPACA Enforcement Prohibition
05/16/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
H 2010 -
Barr
PPACA and Congress Members
05/16/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply to Delegates and Resident Commissioners to the Congress, and to employees of committees and leadership offices of Congress, the requirement of such Act that the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff are plans created or offered through an Exchange established under such Act.
H 2019 -
Harper
Taxpayer Financing of Presidential Campaigns
05/16/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Eliminates taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns and party conventions and reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric research initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National Institutes of Health.
H 2022 -
Black
PPACA and IRS
05/16/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Prohibits the implementation or enforcement of any requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until certifications are made that taxpayer information is not and will not be used for targeting any individual or group that provides information to the Internal Revenue Service for political reasons or on the basis of political views.
H 2030 -
Maloney C
Deceptive Advertising of Abortion Services
05/16/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Directs the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting deceptive advertising of abortion services.
H 2031 -
Markey Ed
Clinical Trial Registry Data Bank
05/16/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title IV of the Public Health Service Act to expand the clinical trial registry data bank.
H 2037 -
Schrader
Psychiatric Physicians in Indian Health Programs
05/16/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES.
Establishes a demonstration grant program to recruit, train, deploy, and professionally support psychiatric physicians in Indian health programs.
H 2053 -
Brady K
Medicare Hospital Wages and Budget Neutrality
05/20/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply budget neutrality on a State-specific basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas.
H 2055 -
Roe
Veterans Electronic Health Records Program
05/20/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Establishes a prize program to award a prize and contract for the development of a fully-integrated electronic health records program for use by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
H 2058 -
Speier
Childhood Cancer Survivorship
05/20/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Improves and enhances research and programs on childhood cancer survivorship.
H 2060 -
Van Hollen
Sequester and Budgetary Resource Restoration
05/20/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on AGRICULTURE.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to restore for the remainder of fiscal year 2013 budgetary resources sequestered on March 1, 2013, for that fiscal year.
H 2063 -
Bilirakis G
Veterans Affairs Health Care and World War II Veterans
05/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the health care provided to veterans of World War II at facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
H 2065 -
McKinley
Homeless Veteran Services and Level of Care Codes
05/21/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to require recipients of per diem payments from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the provision of services for homeless veterans to comply with codes relevant to operations and level of care provided.
H 207 -
Schock
Health Care Sharing Ministries Health Savings Accounts
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make members of health care sharing ministries eligible to establish health savings accounts.
H 208 -
Serrano
Nonprofit Anti-Hunger Group Grants
02/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on AGRICULTURE: Referred to Subcommittee on DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, OVERSIGHT, AND NUTRITION.
Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide greater access to the supplemental nutrition assistance program by reducing duplicative and burdensome administrative requirements, and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to certain community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups for the purpose of establishing and implementing a Beyond the Soup Kitchen Pilot Program for certain socially and economically disadvantaged populations.
H 211 -
Serrano
Proof of Citizenship and Medicaid Eligible Mothers
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to waive the requirement for proof of citizenship during the first year of life for children born in the United States to a Medicaid-eligible mother.
H 217 -
Black
Abortions and Family Planning Grants
01/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions.
H 232 -
Harper
Implanted Infusion Pumps and Payments to Pharmacies
01/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit direct payment to pharmacies for certain compounded drugs that are prepared by the pharmacies for a specific beneficiary for use through an implanted infusion pump.
H 235 -
Kinzinger
Veterans with Emergency Medical Training
02/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to States to streamline State requirements and procedures for veterans with military emergency medical training to become civilian emergency medical technicians.
H 241 -
Ross D
Veterans Affairs and Standards of Access to Health Care
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish standards of access to care for veterans seeking health care from Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
H 244 -
Schakowsky
Nonemergency Physician Services Availability
01/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Assures that the services of a nonemergency department physician are available to hospital patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week in all non-Federal hospitals with at least 100 licensed beds.
H 261 -
Schakowsky
Public Health Insurance Option
01/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish a public health insurance option.
H 27 -
Velazquez
Social Security Act
01/25/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on REGULATORY REFORM, COMMERCIAL AND ANTITRUST LAW.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS), and for other purposes.
H 274 -
Barber
Mental Health First Aid Training Program Grants
01/18/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Section 520J of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for mental health first aid training programs.
H 28 -
Velazquez
Small Business Act
01/03/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on SMALL BUSINESS.
Amends the Small Business Act to provide loan guarantees for the acquisition of health information technology by eligible professionals in solo and small group practices, and for other purposes.
H 288 -
Michaud
CHAMPVA Program and Maximum Age of Children
02/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program.
H 29 -
Velazquez
Public Health Service Act
01/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to improve the provision of medical services to the homeless.
H 297 -
Pitts
Childrens Hospitals and Graduate Medical Education
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for graduate medical education programs in children's hospitals.
H 320 -
Lee B
School Based Mental Health Service Grants
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION & WORKFORCE: Referred to Subcommittee on EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMEN. & SECOND. EDUCATION.
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.
H 346 -
Nunnelee
PPACA and Federal Abortion Funding Ban
01/25/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that the coverage offered under multi-State qualified health plans offered in Exchanges is consistent with the Federal abortion funding ban.
H 351 -
Roe
PPACA and Independent Payment Advisory Board
01/25/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Repeals the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
H 36 -
Dent
Emergency Medical Services
01/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Improves access to emergency medical services, and for other purposes.
H 369 -
Benishek
Veterans and Hearing Loss
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on DISABILITY ASSISTANCE AND MEMORIAL AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service connection for certain veterans with tinnitus or hearing loss.
H 37 -
Barrow
Portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
01/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Repeals portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to reduce Federal Government spending and to reduce the salaries of Members of Congress, and for other purposes.
H 401 -
Nugent
Mentally Ill Offender Treatment Act Reauthorization
02/28/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Reauthorizes and improves the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004.
H 411 -
Tonko
Fort McClellan Veterans Registry
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
H 413 -
Welch
Medicare and Oral Only ESRD Related Drugs
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Eliminates the 2-year delay in including oral-only ESRD-related drugs in the Medicare ESRD prospective payment system, as provided under section 632(b)(1) of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
H 418 -
Ros-Lehtinen
Medicare Fraud Penalties
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Reduces Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse by providing for enhanced penalties to combat Medicare and Medicaid fraud, creates a Medicare data-mining system, and requires a study on applying biometric technology.
H 45 -
Bachmann
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Placed on SENATE Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
H 460 -
McKinley
Specialty Tier Prescription Drug Co-payment Limits
02/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to limit co-payment, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a specialty drug tier to the dollar amount (or its equivalent) of such requirements applicable to prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier.
H 467 -
Connolly
PPACA and Medicaid Expansion Federal Funds
02/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to redistribute Federal funds that would otherwise be made available to States that do not provide for the Medicaid expansion in accordance with the Affordable Care Act to those States electing to provide those Medicaid benefits.
H 473 -
Connolly
Medicare Nursing Facilities and Food Services Directors
02/14/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to the qualification of the director of food services of a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility.
H 475 -
Gerlach
Taxable Vaccines and Influenza Vaccine
02/04/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include vaccines against seasonal influenza within the definition of taxable vaccines.
H 486 -
Keating
Abuse Deterrent Drug Development Incentives
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to incentivize the development of abuse-deterrent drugs.
H 487 -
McMorris Rodger
Medicare Primary Care Graduate Education Pilot Program
02/14/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Provides for a Medicare primary care graduate medical education pilot project in order to improve access to the primary care workforce.
H 500 -
Grayson
Medicare Buy In Option
02/14/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States to buy into Medicare.
H 564 -
Pallone
Social Security Act
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends title V of the Social Security Act to extend funding for family-to-family health information centers to help families of children with disabilities or special health care needs make informed choices about health care for their children.
H 565 -
Pallone
Public Health Service Act
02/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize and support the creation of cardiomyopathy education, awareness, and risk assessment materials and resources by the Secretary of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the dissemination of such materials and resources by State educational agencies to identify more at-risk families.
H 567 -
Rokita
Social Security Act
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Social Security Act to replace the Medicaid program and the Children's Health Insurance program with a block grant to the States, and for other purposes.
H 574 -
Schwartz
Social Security Act
02/14/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform Medicare payment for physicians' services by eliminating the sustainable growth rate system and providing incentives for the adoption of innovative payment and delivery models to improve quality and efficiency.
H 577 -
Stockman
Mentally Incompetent Persons
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on DISABILITY ASSISTANCE AND MEMORIAL AFFAIRS.
Amends title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
H 582 -
Turner M
Internal Revenue Code
02/06/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the individual and employer health insurance mandates.
H 594 -
Burgess
Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance
02/08/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Reauthorizes and extends the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008.
H 602 -
Miller J
Treatment as Adjudicated Mentally Incompetent
05/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Discharged from subcommittee on DISABILITY ASSISTANCE AND MEMORIAL AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
H 607 -
Thornberry
PPACA and Sequestration Delays
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Delays until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.
H 61 -
Blackburn
Public Health Service Act
01/03/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Amends title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
H 628 -
Napolitano
School Based Mental Health Programs
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs.
H 635 -
Pearce
Veterans Affairs and Community Health Care Providers
02/22/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts with community health care providers to improve access to health care for veterans in highly rural areas.
H 660 -
Lee B
National Neuromyelitis Optica Consortium
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a National Neuromyelitis Optica Consortium to provide grants and coordinate research with respect to the causes of, and risk factors associated with, neuromyelitis optica.
H 670 -
Pierluisi
Social Security Enrollment and Puerto Rico
02/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Part B of the Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply deemed enrollment to residents of Puerto Rico and to provide a special enrollment period and a reduction in the late enrollment penalties for certain residents of Puerto Rico.
H 671 -
Pingree
Military Sexual Trauma and Disability Compensation
05/17/2013 - In HOUSE. Placed on HOUSE Union Calendar.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the disability compensation evaluation procedure of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for veterans with mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma.
H 672 -
Rahall
Opioid Treatment Assistance and Federal Oversight
04/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Provides for increased Federal oversight of prescription opioid treatment and assistance to States in reducing opioid abuse, diversion, and deaths.
H 689 -
Blumenauer
Marijuana Rescheduling and Medical Use
04/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Provides for the rescheduling of marijuana and for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the Laws of the various States.
H 698 -
Capps
Organs Infected With HIV Safeguards and Standards
04/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish safeguards and standards of quality for research and transplantation of organs infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
H 7 -
Boehner
Taxpayer Funded Abortions
05/14/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Prohibits taxpayer funded abortions.
H 702 -
Braley
Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program.
H 710 -
Farr
Medical Use of Marijuana
04/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends Title 18, United States Code, to provide an affirmative defense for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the Laws of the various States.
H 713 -
Gerlach
Medicare Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Cap Repeal
02/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
H 728 -
Maloney C
Pharmacies and FDA Approved Contraception
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Establishes certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception.
H 729 -
McDermott
NIH and Sequestration
02/14/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on BUDGET.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the National Institutes of Health from sequestration under Section 251A for fiscal year 2013 and reduces the sequestration by the amount of the exemption.
H 752 -
McNerney
Drug Free Workplace Information Clearinghouse
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a drug-free workplace information clearinghouse, support residential methamphetamine treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, and improve the prevention and treatment of methamphetamine addiction.
H 762 -
Blackburn
PPACA and Cooperative Governing
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Repeals Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.
H 763 -
Boustany
PPACA and Fee on Health Insurance Providers
04/24/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Repeals the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
H 779 -
Issa
National Health Program
04/23/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION AND LABOR: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and amends Title 5, United States Code, to establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees.
H 781 -
Johnson S
Medicare Cards and Social Security Numbers
02/15/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of Social Security account numbers on Medicare cards.
H 784 -
Lee B
Medical Marijuana and Civil Forfeiture
04/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends the Controlled Substances Act so as to exempt real property from civil forfeiture due to medical-marijuana-related conduct that is authorized by State law.
H 79 -
Christensen
Federal Medical Assistance to Territories
01/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the territories.
H 794 -
Schakowsky
Medicare and Clinical Psychologists
02/19/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare Program.
H 800 -
Whitfield
Medicare and Drug Prices
02/15/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Part B of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.
H 805 -
Price T
Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Contracts
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Repeals certain changes to contracts with Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations.
H 806 -
Brownley
Veterans Affairs Medical Budget Accuracy Reports
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the requirement for annual reports on Comptroller General reviews of the accuracy of Department of Veterans Affairs medical budget submissions.
H 81 -
Christensen
High Risk Insurance Pool Program and US Territories
01/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Subtitle B of Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to the territories.
H 82 -
Jackson Lee
Social Security Act
01/25/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on JUDICIARY: Referred to Subcommittee on CRIME, TERRORISM, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND INVESTIGATIONS.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.
H 820 -
Waxman
Food Animals and Antimicrobial Drug Use Reporting
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to enhance the reporting requirements pertaining to use of antimicrobial drugs in food animals.
H 834 -
LoBiondo
Veterans Affairs and Cost-Benefit Analyses
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct cost-benefit analyses for the provision of medical care by the Department of Veterans Affairs in certain geographic areas served by multiple Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
H 846 -
Olson
Medicare and Diagnostic Imaging Services
03/04/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the continued access of Medicare beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services.
H 855 -
Hall R
Medicaid Coverage of Optometrists
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of optometrists.
H 896 -
Engel
Medicaid and CHIP and Maternity Care
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.
H 897 -
Hahn
Homeless Veterans
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to expand the definition of homeless veteran for purposes of benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
H 903 -
Boustany
Employer Health Insurance Mandate Repeal
02/28/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the employer health insurance mandate.
H 912 -
Hanabusa
Medicaid and the Freely Associated States
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to restore Medicaid coverage for citizens of the Freely Associated States lawfully residing in the United States under the Compacts of Free Association between the Government of the United States and the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
H 920 -
McMorris Rodger
National Health Service Corps and Optometrists
03/01/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs.
H 923 -
Nadler
Prescription Drug Advertisements and Tax Deductions
02/28/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs.
H 928 -
Schakowsky
Medicare and Prescription Drug Prices
03/07/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under the Medicare Program.
H 940 -
Black
PPACA and Abortion
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to protect rights of conscience with regard to requirements for coverage of specific items and services, and amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities.
H 942 -
Crowley
Medicare and Complex Rehabilitation Technology
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Relates to the Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013; amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage and payment for complex rehabilitation technology items under the Medicare program, including wheelchairs, highly configurable manual wheelchairs, adaptive seating and positioning systems, and other specialized equipment.
H 948 -
Reed T
Electronic Data and Human Services Programs
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Establishes consistent requirements for the electronic content and format of data used in the administration of certain human services programs under the Social Security Act.
H 958 -
Larsen
Wounded Veterans and Reproductive Assistance
03/14/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to severely wounded, ill, or injured veterans and their spouses.
H 962 -
Davis S
Medicare and Diabetes
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the incidence of diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries.
H 963 -
DeGette
Low Income Individuals and Dental Care
03/05/2013 - To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.
Assists low-income individuals in obtaining medically recommended dental care.
H 970 -
Michaud
Child Support and States Charging for Collection
03/07/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS: Referred to Subcommittee on HUMAN RESOURCES.
Amends Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from charging child support recipients for the collection of child support.
H 975 -
Walz
Armed Forces and Mental Conditions
03/26/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ARMED SERVICES: Referred to Subcommittee on MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, to extend the duration of the Physical Disability Board of Review and to the expand the authority of such Board to review of the separation of members of the Armed Forces on the basis of a mental condition not amounting to disability, including separation on the basis of a personality or adjustment disorder.
H 986 -
Schock
Rural Health Clinic Fairness Act of 2013
03/08/2013 - In HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE: Referred to Subcommittee on HEALTH.
Relates to the Rural Health Clinic Fairness Act of 2013; amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the eligibility of eligible professionals practicing in rural health clinics for electronic health records and quality improvement incentives under Medicare.
H 991 -
Hall R
Medicare and Colorectal Cancer Screening
03/06/2013 - Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to cover screening computed tomography colonography as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program.
HRES 215 -
Burgess
Consideration of HR 45
05/16/2013 - In HOUSE. Passed HOUSE.
Provides for consideration of the bill (H.R. 45) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
ID S 1042 -
Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee
Health Insurance Exchange
02/08/2013 - From SENATE Committee on COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES: Do pass.
Adds to existing law to establish the Health Insurance Exchange and the board; provides for powers and authority of the exchange; provides for reporting; authorizes reliance by the exchange on other agencies; provides that the exchange shall not preempt the duties of the Department of Insurance.
S 116 -
Reed
Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Revision
01/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Revises and extends provisions under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.
S 117 -
Klobuchar
Medicare and Prescription Drug Price Negotiation
01/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.
S 133 -
Roberts
Health Care and Comparative Effectiveness Research
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Protects all patients by prohibiting the use of data obtained from comparative effectiveness research to deny or delay coverage of items or services under Federal health care programs and to ensure that comparative effectiveness research accounts for advancements in personalized medicine and differences in patient treatment response.
S 135 -
Vitter
Family Planning Grants and Abortions
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends Title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions.
S 136 -
Vitter
Stem Cell Research Tax Credit
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain stem cell research expenditures.
S 137 -
Vitter
Abortion Related Discrimination
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities.
S 139 -
Vitter
Abortions and Admitting Privilege Requirements
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Imposes admitting privilege requirements with respect to physicians who perform abortions.
S 142 -
Casey
Abortions and Federal Funds
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds for abortions.
S 143 -
Casey
Abortion Participation Refusal and Discrimination
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Prohibits discrimination and retaliation against individuals and health care entities that refuse to recommend, refer for, provide coverage for, pay for, provide, perform, assist, or participate in abortions.
S 144 -
Casey
PPACA and Pregnancy Assistance Fund
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize additional funding for the pregnancy assistance fund.
S 153 -
Begich
Mental Health First Aid Training Programs
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends section 520J of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for mental health first aid training programs.
S 154 -
Coburn
PPACA and Federal Abortion Funding Ban
01/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends Title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that the coverage offered under multi-State qualified health plans offered in Exchanges is consistent with the Federal abortion funding ban.
S 160 -
Merkley
Consumer Credit Reports and Medical Debt
01/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS.
Excludes from consumer credit reports medical debt that has been in collection and has been fully paid or settled.
S 162 -
Franken
Mentally Ill Offender Treatment Act Reauthorization
01/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Reauthorizes and improves the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004.
S 177 -
Cruz
PPACA Repeal
01/30/2013 - In SENATE. Read second time. Placed on Legislative Calendar under General Orders.
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 entirely.
S 183 -
McCaskill
Medicare and Fairness in Hospital Payments
01/30/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for fairness in hospital payments under the Medicare program.
S 185 -
Ayotte
Discretionary Programs Automatic Inflation Increases
01/30/2013 - To SENATE Committee on BUDGET.
Eliminates the automatic inflation increases for discretionary programs built into the baseline projections and requires budget estimates to be compared with the prior year's level.
S 195 -
Franken
School-based Comprehensive Mental Health Programs
02/12/2013 - Subcommittee on CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS hearings held.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs.
S 214 -
Klobuchar
Generic Drugs and Compensation for Delay of Entry
02/04/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Prohibits brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market.
S 236 -
Murkowski
Social Security Act
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medicare payment option for patients and physicians or practitioners to freely contract, without penalty, for Medicare fee-for-service items and services, while allowing Medicare beneficiaries to use their Medicare benefits.
S 239 -
Murkowski
Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Demonstration
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Extends the frontier extended stay clinic demonstration.
S 254 -
Menendez
Public Health Service Act
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize and support the creation of cardiomyopathy education, awareness, and risk assessment materials and resources by the Secretary of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the dissemination of such materials and resources by State educational agencies to identify more at-risk families.
S 264 -
Stabenow
Community Mental Health Centers
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Expands access to community mental health centers and improve the quality of mental health care for all Americans.
S 265 -
Reed
Public Health Service Act
02/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for community-based mental health infrastructure improvement.
S 287 -
Begich
Homeless Veteran Definition Expansion
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to expand the definition of homeless veteran for purposes of benefits under the Laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
S 294 -
Tester
Military Sexual Trauma and Disability Compensation
02/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends title 38, United States Code, to improve the disability compensation evaluation procedure of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for veterans with mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma.
S 315 -
Klobuchar
Paul Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Assistance
02/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Reauthorizes and extends the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008.
S 3202 -
Murray
Dignified Burial and Other Veterans Benefits
01/10/2013 - Public Law No. 112-260
Creates the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2012; ensures that deceased veterans with no known next of kin receive a dignified burial; extends the reduced pension for certain veterans covered by Medicaid plans for services furnished by nursing facilities; relates to off-base transition training for veterans and their families.
S 323 -
Durbin
Medicare and Immunosuppressive Drugs
02/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for extended months of Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients and other renal dialysis provisions.
S 324 -
Schumer
Puerto Ricans Social Security Enrollment
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Part B of the Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply deemed enrollment to residents of Puerto Rico and to provide a special enrollment period and a reduction in the late enrollment penalties for certain residents of Puerto Rico.
S 325 -
Tester
Childrens Medical Care Maximum Age
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program.
S 328 -
Thune
Physician Availability Via Telecommunications Systems
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow certain critical access hospitals and sole community hospitals to use interactive telecommunications systems to satisfy requirements with respect to having a physician available to stabilize an individual with an emergency medical condition under the Medicare program.
S 330 -
Boxer
Organs Infected with HIV
05/21/2013 - In SENATE. Placed on SENATE Legislative Calendar under General Orders.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish safeguards and standards of quality for research and transplantation of organs infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
S 333 -
Lautenberg
Pharmacies Provision of Contraceptives
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Establishes certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception.
S 348 -
Rockefeller
Federal Oversight of Opioid Treatment
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Provides for increased Federal oversight of prescription opioid treatment and assistance to States in reducing opioid abuse, diversion, and deaths.
S 351 -
Cornyn
PPACA and Independent Payment Advisory Board
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Repeals the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
S 367 -
Cardin
Medicare Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Caps
02/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
S 380 -
Murray
National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Grants
02/26/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and update the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative for grants to address the problems of individuals who experience trauma and violence related stress.
S 382 -
Schumer
Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Supervision
02/26/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends 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.
S 385 -
Begich
Indian Health Service Claims and Timeliness
02/26/2013 - To SENATE Committee on INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Deems the submission of certain claims to an Indian Health Service contracting officer as timely.
S 39 -
Harkin
Health Care and Prevention
01/22/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Improves the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the Nation's health care system toward prevention, wellness, and health promotion.
S 391 -
Baucus
Influenza Vaccines and Taxation
02/27/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include vaccines against seasonal influenza within the definition of taxable vaccines.
S 399 -
Hatch
Employer Health Insurance Mandate Repeal
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Protects American job creation by striking the Federal mandate on employers to offer health insurance.
S 40 -
Hatch
Health Insurance Mandate
01/22/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Restores Americans' individual liberty by striking the Federal mandate to purchase insurance.
S 408 -
Durbin
Medicare and Prescription Drug Prices
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under the Medicare program.
S 422 -
Blumenthal
Veterans and Chiropractic Care
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 and title 38, United States Code, to require the provision of chiropractic care and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and to expand access to such care and services.
S 423 -
Menendez
Family to Family Health Information Centers
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title V of the Social Security Act to extend funding for family-to-family health information centers to help families of children with disabilities or special health care needs make informed choices about health care for their children.
S 424 -
Brown S
National Pediatric Research Network
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends Title IV of the Public Health Service Act to provide for a National Pediatric Research Network, including with respect to pediatric rare diseases or conditions.
S 425 -
Stabenow
Medicaid and CHIP and Maternity Care
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.
S 426 -
Tester
Health Service Corps and Environmental Health Hazards
02/28/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of particular specialists determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be directly related to the health needs stemming from environmental health hazards that have led to its declaration as a Public Health Emergency to be eligible under the National Health Service Corps in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
S 44 -
Portman
Health Care and Liability
01/22/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Improves patient access to health care services and provides improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.
S 452 -
Franken
Medicare and Diabetes
03/05/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the incidence of diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries.
S 466 -
Menendez
Low Income Individuals and Dental Care
03/05/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Assists low-income individuals in obtaining recommended dental care.
S 47 -
Leahy
Violence Against Women Act of 1994 Reauthorization
03/07/2013 - Public Law No. 113-4
Reauthorizes the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
S 480 -
Graham
National Background Checks and Mental Incompetency
03/06/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Improves the effectiveness of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System by clarifying reporting requirements related to adjudications of mental incompetency.
S 499 -
Vitter
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Repeal
03/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
S 50 -
Boxer
Cancer and Disease Cluster Investigations
01/22/2013 - To SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate and address cancer and disease clusters, including in infants and children.
S 516 -
Tester
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Reduces disparities and improves access to effective and cost efficient diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through advances in testing, research, and education, including through telehealth, comparative effectiveness research, and identification of best practices in patient education and outreach particularly with respect to underserved racial, ethnic and rural populations and men with a family history of prostate cancer.
S 521 -
Durbin
Wounded Warrior Research Enhancement Act
03/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on ARMED SERVICES.
Relates to the Wounded Warrior Research Enhancement Act; requires the Secretary of Defense to award grants to fund research on orthotics and prosthetics.
S 522 -
Durbin
Wounded Warrior Workforce Enhancement Act
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Relates to the Wounded Warrior Workforce Enhancement Act; requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to award grants to establish, or expand upon, master's degree or doctoral degree programs in orthotics and prosthetics.
S 53 -
Boxer
Disease Cluster Grants
01/22/2013 - To SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS.
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants to individuals that may be affected by a reported disease cluster.
S 553 -
Johnson T
Veterinary Student Loan Repayment Programs and Taxes
03/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an exclusion for assistance provided to participants in certain veterinary student loan repayment or forgiveness programs.
S 557 -
Hagan
Medicare and Medication Therapy Management
03/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to medication therapy management under Part D of the Medicare program.
S 560 -
Lee M
PPACA Individual Mandate and Tax
03/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Provides that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shall not be construed as a tax.
S 562 -
Wyden
Medicare and Family Therapist Services
03/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Part B of the Medicare program.
S 569 -
Brown S
Medicare and Inpatient Hospital Requirement
03/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.
S 572 -
Burr
Treatment as Adjudicated Mentally Incompetent
03/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
S 577 -
Nelson Bi
Social Security and Residency Positions
03/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions.
S 596 -
Thune
Home Health Agencies and Patient Monitoring Services
03/18/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Establishes pilot projects under the Medicare program to provide incentives for home health agencies to furnish remote patient monitoring services that reduce expenditures under such program.
S 602 -
Tester
National Health Service Corps and Physical Therapists
03/19/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
S 603 -
Barrasso
PPACA and Annual Fee on Health Insurance Providers
03/19/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Repeals the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
S 608 -
Cardin
Medicare and Colorectal Screening Test
03/19/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act and Title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve coverage for colorectal screening tests under Medicare and private health insurance coverage.
S 610 -
Johanns
PPACA and Health Care Benefit Limitations
03/19/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal certain limitations on health care benefits.
S 612 -
Durbin
Medicare Identification Card and Social Security Number
03/19/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to remove social security account Numbers from Medicare identification cards and communications provided to Medicare beneficiaries in order to protect Medicare beneficiaries from identity theft.
S 62 -
Boxer
Tax Overpayments as Contributions to Homeless Veterans
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate overpayments of tax as contributions and to make additional contributions to the Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund.
S 621 -
Manchin
Hydrocodone and Schedule II
03/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY.
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make any substance containing hydrocodone a Schedule II drug.
S 623 -
Cardin
Medicare and Diagnostic Imaging Services
03/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the continued access of Medicare beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services.
S 626 -
Sanders
Drug Prices and Research and Development Incentives
03/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
De-links research and development incentives from drug prices for new medicines to treat HIV/AIDS and to stimulate greater sharing of scientific knowledge.
S 627 -
Sanders
Medicines Research and Investment
03/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Provides incentives for investment in research and development for new medicines, to enhance access to new medicines.
S 628 -
Tester
Armed Forces Separation and Mental Conditions
03/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on ARMED SERVICES.
Amends Title 10, United States Code, to extend the duration of the Physical Disability Board of Review and to the expand the authority of such board to review of the separation of members of the Armed Forces on the basis of mental condition not amounting to disability, including separation on the basis of a personality or adjustment disorder.
S 636 -
Menendez
Puerto Rico and Electronic Health Records Technology
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow certain hospitals in Puerto Rico to qualify for incentives for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health records technology under the Medicare program.
S 641 -
Wyden
Palliative Medicine
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.
S 642 -
Enzi
Medical Imaging Examinations
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act and Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make the provision of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly.
S 644 -
Casey
Dextromethorphan Abuse
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent the abuse of dextromethorphan.
S 648 -
Klobuchar
Student Mental Health Conditions and Teacher Training
03/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to support teacher and school professional training on awareness of student mental health conditions.
S 672 -
Isakson
Medicare and Sharps Disposal
04/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of containment, removal, decontamination and disposal of home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, decontamination/destruction device, or sharps-by-mail program or similar program under Part D of the Medicare program.
S 689 -
Harkin
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorder Programs
04/11/2013 - In SENATE. Placed on SENATE Legislative Calendar under General Orders.
Reauthorizes and improves programs related to mental health and substance use disorders.
S 701 -
Collins
PPACA and Full Time Employee Definition
04/10/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of full-time employee for purposes of the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
S 709 -
Stabenow
Alzheimer's Disease
04/11/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, leading to better care and outcomes for Americans living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
S 723 -
Gillibrand
Medicare and Huntington's Disease
04/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical and evaluation criteria for determining disability in a person diagnosed with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.
S 726 -
Schatz
Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013
04/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Relates to the Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013; amends the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care.
S 739 -
Boxer
Direct Care Registered Nurse to Patient Ratios
04/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals.
S 740 -
Rockefeller
Medicare Prescription Drug Rebates
04/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require drug manufacturers to provide drug rebates for drugs dispensed to low-income individuals under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program.
S 752 -
Gillibrand
Patient Medication Information
04/17/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations regarding the authorship, content, format and dissemination of Patient Medication Information to ensure patients receive consistent and high-quality information about their prescription medications and are aware of the potential risks and benefits of prescription medications.
S 755 -
Klobuchar
Medicaid Primary Care Payment and Additional Providers
04/17/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate to additional physician providers of primary care services.
S 764 -
Cornyn
Patients Right To Know Act of 2013
04/18/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Relates to the Patients' Right to Know Act of 2013; amends Title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require the disclosure of information regarding how certain taxes and fees impact the amount of premiums.
S 77 -
Franken
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation
01/23/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Part D of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate for lower prices for Medicare prescription drugs.
S 804 -
Portman
Workforce Investment System
04/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Streamlines and addresses overlap in the Federal workforce investment system, steers Federal training dollars toward skills needed by industry, establishes incentives for accountability through a Pay for Performance pilot program, and provides new access to the National Directory of New Hires, measures performance and better connects the unemployed to jobs.
S 806 -
Roberts
Medicare and Average Drug Sales Price
04/24/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Part B of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.
S 810 -
Donnelly
Armed Forces Mental Health Computerized Assessment
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on ARMED SERVICES.
Requires a pilot program on an online computerized assessment to enhance detection of behaviors indicating a risk of suicide and other mental health conditions in members of the Armed Forces.
S 819 -
Burr
Veterans and Mental Health Care
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to require a program of mental health care and rehabilitation for veterans for service-related post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, or a related substance use disorder.
S 825 -
Sanders
Homeless Veterans Prevention Act of 2013
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Relates to the Homeless Veterans Prevention Act of 2013; amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of services for homeless veterans.
S 833 -
Murray
Homeless Children and Education
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends Subtitle B of Title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide education for homeless children and youths.
S 834 -
Murray
Homeless Children and Child Care
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to ensure access to high-quality child care for homeless children and families.
S 842 -
Schumer
Medicare Dependent Hospital Program Extension
04/25/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and the increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.
S 845 -
Tester
Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program.
S 852 -
Sanders
Veterans Health Promotion Act of 2013
05/09/2013 - In SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Hearings held.
Relates to the Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013; improves health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care.
S 858 -
Sanders
PPACA and State Health Care Coverage Innovation Waivers
05/06/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Provides for an earlier start for State health care coverage innovation waivers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
S 867 -
Pryor
Medicare and Pharmacy Benefits Manager Standards
05/06/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for pharmacy benefits manager standards under the Medicare prescription drug program, establishes basic audit standards of pharmacies, furthers transparency of payment methodology to pharmacies, and provides for recoupment returns to Medicare.
S 875 -
Casey
Veterans Health Administration and Disease Reporting
05/07/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to require the reporting of cases of infectious diseases at facilities of the Veterans Health Administration.
S 902 -
Vitter
PPACA and Congressional Staff and Executive Branch
05/08/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS.
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply the provisions of the Act to certain Congressional staff and members of the executive branch.
S 907 -
Shaheen
Gestational Diabetes
05/08/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Provides grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes.
S 914 -
Cochran
Implanted Infusion Pump Drug Payments
05/09/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit direct payment to pharmacies for certain compounded drugs that are prepared by the pharmacies for a specific beneficiary for use through an implanted infusion pump.
S 931 -
Blunt
Breast Cancer Patients and Reconstruction
05/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to raise awareness of, and to educate breast cancer patients anticipating surgery, especially patients who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups, regarding the availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and other options.
S 935 -
Franken
Veterans Affairs and Medical Examinations
05/13/2013 - To SENATE Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
Amends Title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from requesting additional medical examinations of veterans who have submitted sufficient medical evidence provided by non-Department medical professionals; improves the efficiency of processing certain claims for disability compensation by veterans.
S 945 -
Shaheen
Medicare and Diabetes Self Management Training
05/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to diabetes self-management training by authorizing certified diabetes educators to provide diabetes self-management training services, including as Part of telehealth services, under Part B of the Medicare program.
S 946 -
Wicker
Taxpayer Funded Abortions
05/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Prohibits taxpayer funded abortions.
S 948 -
Schumer
Medicare and Complex Rehabilitation Technology
05/14/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage and payment for complex rehabilitation technology items under the Medicare program.
S 955 -
Thune
Volunteer Health Practitioner Liability Protections
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide liability protections for volunteer practitioners at health centers under section 330 of such Act.
S 957 -
Bennet
Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chain
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the pharmaceutical distribution supply chain.
S 959 -
Harkin
Compounding Drugs
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to compounding drugs.
S 961 -
Blunt
Access to Emergency Medical Services
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Improves access to emergency medical services.
S 962 -
Heller
PPACA and IRS Implementation
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Prohibits amounts made available by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 from being transferred to the Internal Revenue Service for implementation of such Acts.
S 963 -
Coburn
Unrealistic Future Medicaid Augmentation Prevention
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Prevents an unrealistic future Medicaid augmentation plan.
S 966 -
Cardin
Medical Flexible Spending Arrangements
05/15/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase participation in medical flexible spending arrangements.
S 972 -
Coburn
HIPAA Standards and ICD-10
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services replacing ICD-9 with ICD-10 in implementing the HIPAA code set standards.
S 983 -
Cornyn
PPACA Enforcement Prohibition
05/16/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
S 989 -
Schatz
Health Data and Direct Appropriations Prerequisite
05/20/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Eliminates the prerequisite of direct appropriations relating to collection of health data and modifies standards for measuring sexual orientation and gender identity.
S 997 -
Mikulski
Social Work Reinvestment Commission
05/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Establishes the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy issues associated with recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
S 998 -
Franken
Home Care Consumer Bill of Rights
05/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a Home Care Consumer Bill of Rights and establishes State Home Care Ombudsman Programs.
S 999 -
Cardin
Holocaust Survivors and Social Services
05/21/2013 - To SENATE Committee on HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS.
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide social service agencies with the resources to provide services to meet the urgent needs of Holocaust survivors to age in place with dignity, comfort, security, and quality of life.
SRES 21 -
Lautenberg
National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care
02/14/2013 - In SENATE. Passed SENATE.
Designates February 14, 2013, as "National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care".
SRES 27 -
Murray
Designation Resolution
02/07/2013 - In SENATE. Passed SENATE.
Designates the week of February 4 through 8, 2013, as "National School Counseling Week".
SRES 49 -
Nelson Bi
Committee on Aging Expenditures
02/26/2013 - To SENATE Committee on RULES AND ADMINISTRATION.
An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Special Committee on Aging.