3.0.0 2217 2023-01-15T11:03:08Z 2023-01-15T11:03:08Z Senate S S 2004-03-12 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-03-12T19:07:08Z 2004-03-12 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2794-2802) IntroReferral 2004-03-12 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2794) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-03-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000439 Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN] WILLIAM FRIST R TN H. N Health AIDS (Disease) Access to health care Administrative procedure Asthma Authorization Bilingualism Cancer Cardiovascular diseases Case management Child health Chronically ill Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clinics Commerce Communicable diseases Communication in medicine Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Continuing education Cost of living adjustments Crime and Law Enforcement Curricula Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Diabetes Drugs Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Educational counseling Educational facilities Electronic government information Ethnic relations Families Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Fraud Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Graduate education Health education Health facilities Health information systems Health insurance Health planning Health warnings Higher education Hospitals Human behavior Human immunodeficiency viruses Illiteracy Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Indian medical care Insurance premiums Internet Land transfers Law Mediation Medicaid Medical economics Medical education Medical personnel Medical records Medical research Medical screening Medical statistics Medical tests Medically uninsured Medicare Minorities Minorities in medicine Minority education Minority health Names Native Americans Nonprofit organizations Nursing education Obesity Performance measurement Poor children Preventive medicine Public health personnel Public hospitals Public-private partnerships Quality of care Research grants Right of privacy Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Scientists Signs and symbols Social Welfare Standards Student loan funds Tax credits Tax penalties Tax refunds Tax returns Teacher education Translating and interpreting Vaccination Web sites Health 00 2004-03-12 Introduced in Senate 2004-06-23T18:47:58Z Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 - Requires specified agencies to: (1) standardize health care quality measures across all Federal government programs; (2) standardize public reporting requirements; and (3) support data collection and reporting efforts in Federal and State agencies.

Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to improve access to health care for health care disparity populations and to support efforts to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Provides for refundable tax credits to offset the cost of health insurance.

Changes the name of the Office of Minority Health to the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities and changes the duties of the Office and its associated advisory committee to include health disparities as a problem to study and address.

Provides grants to support: (1) health professions education for racial or ethnic minorities or health disparity populations; and (2) curricula development for cultural competency training.

Requires the Director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities to: (1) develop and maintain an Internet clearinghouse to improve health care quality for individuals with specific cultural needs, limited English proficiency, or low functional health literacy; and (2) reduce or eliminate the duplication of efforts to translate materials.

Authorizes grants or assistance for and establishes programs and projects to address: (1) the analysis of the causes and sources of health care disparities and strategies to reduce disparities; (2) disease management; (3) the effective measurement of disparities; (4) the analysis and collection of health disparity data; and (5) the recruitment of minority scientists or research professionals to the health disparity field.

]]> Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 Display Title Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the health of health disparity populations. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-03-12T05:00:00Z 2004-03-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2794-2802) 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.