3.0.0 1929 2023-01-13T04:49:46Z 2023-01-13T04:49:46Z Senate S S 2005-10-27 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-10-27T18:48:24Z 2005-10-27 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2005-10-27 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. N H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2005-10-27 True C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2005-10-27 True Health AIDS (Disease) Access to health care Accreditation (Medical care) Administrative procedure Alaska Ambulatory care Asian American ethnic groups Asthma Blacks Breast cancer Cardiovascular diseases Case mix (Medical care) Cervical cancer Child health Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clinics Commerce Community health services Computers Conferences Congress Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Demography Department of Health and Human Services Diabetes Economics and Public Finance Education Educational statistics Electronic government information Electronic mail systems Elementary and secondary education Evaluation research (Social action programs) Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Health insurance Higher education Hispanic Americans Hospital care Hospitals Human immunodeficiency viruses Indian medical care Indigenous peoples Infant mortality Information technology Internet Language and languages Law Licenses Medicaid Medical economics Medical records Medical research Medical screening Medical statistics Medical tests Medically uninsured Medicare Minorities Minority health Native Americans Obesity Pacific Islanders Patient satisfaction Performance measurement Poor children Quality of care Right of privacy Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Standards Taxation Vaccination Web sites Women Women's health Health 00 2005-10-27 Introduced in Senate 2005-12-21T16:30:58Z Faircare Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require additional data collection and reporting for funded health programs.

Authorizes the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop a set of quality measures for each of the most common treatment settings, including hospitals, pediatric centers, and outpatient facilities. Requires the Agency to rank these measures according to their potential to remedy health care disparities.

Requires the Agency to establish an Advisory Committee on Quality to recommend quality indicators for all quality data sets developed by the Agency.

Establishes the Office of National Healthcare Disparities and Quality within the Agency to administer the development and submission of the annual National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report.

Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program under which financial incentive payments are made to hospitals if they meet certain criteria regarding data collection, high quality care, and the treatment of health disparity populations. Amends the PHSA to require the Secretary to: (1) designate health centers that receive federal assistance as Faircare Health Centers if they meet such criteria; and (2) make designated health centers eligible for annual bonuses.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants and carry out activities to expand the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program (REACH 2010).

]]> Faircare Act Display Title Faircare Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to reduce health care disparities and improve health care quality, to improve the collection of racial, ethnic, primary language, and socio-economic determination data for use by healthcare researchers and policymakers, to provide performance incentives for high performing hospitals and community health centers, and to expand current Federal programs seeking to eliminate health disparities. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Faircare Act Introduced in Senate 2005-10-27T04:00:00Z 2005-10-27 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.