3.0.0 10 2023-01-15T21:34:12Z 2023-01-15T21:34:12Z Senate S S 2003-01-07 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-01-07T22:09:27Z 2003-01-07 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2003-01-07 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 1/9/2003 S134) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-01-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000064 Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] THOMAS DASCHLE D SD ANDREW N K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2003-01-07 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2003-01-07 True C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2003-01-07 True S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2003-01-07 True M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2003-01-07 True C001042 Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ] JON CORZINE D NJ S. 2003-01-07 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2003-01-07 True L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. 2003-01-07 True M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2003-01-07 True L000261 Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] CARL LEVIN D MI MILTON 2003-01-07 True R000361 Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] JAY ROCKEFELLER D WV 2003-01-07 True A000069 Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL AKAKA D HI KOHIKINA 2003-01-07 True J000177 Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] TIM JOHNSON D SD 2003-01-07 True S000064 Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD] PAUL SARBANES D MD SPYROS 2003-01-07 True D000596 Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN] MARK DAYTON D MN 2003-01-07 True L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2003-01-07 True L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2003-01-07 True R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2003-01-07 True P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2003-01-07 True B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2003-01-09 False D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2003-01-09 False I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2003-02-13 False Health Abortion Access to health care Accreditation (Medical care) Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Alcoholism Ambulances American Samoa Appropriations Associations, institutions, etc. Breast cancer Business records Case management Child health Childbirth Chronically ill Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Class actions (Civil procedure) Clinical trials Coinsurance Collective bargaining Commerce Commercial arbitration Communication in medicine Community health services Computer software Confidential communications Conflict of interests Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Consumer price indexes Corporation taxes Customs administration Damages Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Department of Labor Disabled Discovery (Law) Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Dismissal of employees District of Columbia Donation of organs, tissues, etc. Drug abuse Drug abuse treatment Drug approvals Drug utilization Drugs Economics and Public Finance Education Electronic government information Elementary and secondary education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Employee health benefits Employers' liability Evidence (Law) Families Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to health facilities Federal employees Federal preemption Federal-state relations Fees Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Food stamps Foreign Trade and International Finance Freedom of information Freedom of speech Genetic counseling Government Operations and Politics Government employees' health insurance Government paperwork Government trust funds Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Grievance procedures Guam Gynecology Health information systems Health insurance Health insurance continuation Health maintenance organizations Health planning Home care services Homeless Hospitals Housing and Community Development Human engineering Immigrant health Immigration Income tax Indian medical care Industrial arbitration Infants Information services Information technology Insurance companies Insurance premiums Labeling Labor and Employment Labor contracts Law Legal fees Legislation Liability (Law) Licenses Long-term care Losses Managed care Marketing Married people Mastectomy Maternal health services Medicaid Medical economics Medical ethics Medical laboratories Medical malpractice Medical personnel Medical records Medical research Medical screening Medical statistics Medical supplies Medical technology Medical tests Medically uninsured Medicare Mental care facilities Mental health services Minorities Northern Mariana Islands Nurse practitioners Nurses Obstetrics Old age, survivors and disability insurance Ovarian cancer Parents Patient satisfaction Patients' rights Peer review organizations (Medicine) Pharmacies Pharmacists Physician-patient privilege Physicians Poverty Pregnant women Prescription pricing Preventive medicine Puerto Rico Punitive damages Quality of care Research centers Retiree health benefits Right of privacy Rural health Salaries School lunch program Science, Technology, Communications Small business Social Welfare Social security finance Social work Standards State laws Subsidies Surgery Tax credits Taxation Technological innovations Technology assessment Terminal care Territories (U.S.) User charges Virgin Islands Welfare waivers Whistle blowing Women Women's health Health 00 2003-01-07 Introduced in Senate 2006-11-28T17:35:40Z Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Health Care Consumer Assistance Fund, to be used to award grants to eligible States to carry out consumer assistance activities designed to provide information, assistance, and referrals to consumers of health insurance products.

Requires access to care, including non-network providers, timely access to specialty care, direct access to specialists in obstetrics and gynecology, investigational drug and device coverage, coverage for patients in clinical trials, and the inpatient period for breast cancer patients.

Prohibits restricting a health care professional's communications with a patient, discrimination against a provider solely because of the provider's license or certification, improper incentives, and retaliation for patient advocacy, including by providers. Requires prompt claims payment.

Delays the required submission date of a letter of credit by carriers administering Supplementary Medical Insurance.

Sets forth patient safety improvement provisions.

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain employee group health plans or related insurances providing both medical-surgical and mental health benefits from imposing mental health treatment limitations or financial requirements unless comparable limitations and requirements are imposed upon medical-surgical benefits.

Provides for the automatic enrollment in Title XXI (currently, the State Children's Health Insurance Program - renamed the FamilyCare Program under this Act) of the Social Security Act of children born to title XXI parents.

Provides expanded Medicaid benefits for disabled children and for psychiatric care for individuals under age 21.

Amends Social Security Act provisions with respect to the welfare-to-work transition under the Medicaid program.

Authorizes the Secretary to award demonstration grants to a limited number of States to conduct innovative programs designed to improve outreach to homeless individuals and families under specified programs for the homeless (including Medicaid and FamilyCare) with respect to enrollment of such individuals and families and the provision of services under such programs.

Amends the Indian Health Care Act to guarantee specified amounts of funding for Indian health care.]]>

Health Care Coverage Expansion and Quality Improvement Act of 2003 Display Title Health Care Coverage Expansion and Quality Improvement Act of 2003 Official Title as Introduced A bill to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage, to provide for parity with respect to mental health coverage, to reduce medical errors, and to increase the access of individuals to quality health care. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Health Care Coverage Expansion and Quality Improvement Act of 2003 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Patient Safety Improvement and Medical Injury Reduction Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2003 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Bipartisan Patient Protection Act Introduced in Senate 2003-01-07T05:00:00Z 2003-01-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.