3.0.0 2570 2023-01-15T04:49:23Z 2023-01-15T04:49:23Z Senate S S 2004-06-23 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-06-23T23:51:50Z 2004-06-23 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2004-06-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress 2004-06-22 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (mislabeled in CR as S.2558: CR S7183-7189) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA N H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2004-06-23 True Health Administrative fees Administrative procedure Agricultural labor Agriculture and Food Anesthetics Appropriations Associations, institutions, etc. Business records Career education Chambers of commerce Child health Churches Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clergy Coinsurance Commerce Communication in medicine Community and school Computers Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Continuing education Cooperative societies Curricula Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Economics and Public Finance Education Electronic data interchange Elementary and secondary education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Employee health benefits Excise tax Families Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Health care fraud Health education Health information systems Health insurance Health insurance continuation Health insurance portability Health promotion Higher education Hospital personnel Immigrant health Immigrants Immigration Information technology Insurance premiums Labor and Employment Law Licenses Living wills Married people Maternal health services Mathematics Medicaid Medical economics Medical education Medical fees Medical malpractice Medical records Medical research Medical statistics Medical technology Medically uninsured Medicare Mentoring Migrant labor Nonprofit organizations Nurse practitioners Nurses Nutrition Parents Patients' rights Payroll deductions Physicians' assistants Poor children Pregnant women Preventive medicine Professional associations Public service advertising Quality of care Religion Research grants Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Seasonal labor Secondary education Self-insurance Small business Social Welfare Standards State laws Tax penalties Taxation Trade associations Valuation Welfare eligibility Women Women's health Youth Health 00 2004-06-23 Introduced in Senate 2004-11-12T21:09:37Z Health Care Assurance Act of 2004 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to: (1) develop a target actuarial value for standard health care coverage offered by any plan or group or individual health insurance coverage; (2) specify how premiums for health care coverage are to be set; and (3) require health plans and issuers to disclose rating practices.

Sets forth provisions governing the operation (including premium setting and enrollment) of qualified small employer purchasing groups, qualified association plans, church plans, multi-employer plans, plans maintained by rural electric cooperatives, and plans maintained by rural telephone cooperatives.

Requires small employers to offer, but not contribute to, standard health care coverage.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose taxes on the failure of specified health insurance plans to comply with this Act.

Sets forth provisions regarding "continuation coverage" (COBRA), including regarding deductibles, terminating coverage, length of coverage, and coverage of dependent children.

Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) revise the definition of an eligible ''low-income child'' to mean a child whose family income is at or below 233 percent (currently, 200 percent) of the poverty line; and (2) authorize States to extend SCHIP coverage to include health care assistance for low-income parents and pregnant women.

Increases the authorized appropriations for the Account for Medicare Integrity Program.

Requires the Secretary to provide for reporting systems, training, education, and a national database to reduce medical errors.

Establishes the Trust Fund for Medical Treatment Outcomes Research to be funded using taxes related to health insurance policies.

Sets forth provisions regarding information technology, including regarding how the use of such technology can be encouraged.

Requires the Secretary to educate the public about health care choices and to develop ways to improve advance directives and living wills.

Amends the title XVIII (Medicare) of the SSA to increase the reimbursement rate for physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists.

Requires the Secretary to establish programs to recruit high school or college students to careers in general medicine.

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