3.0.0 3815 2023-01-12T17:52:24Z 2023-01-12T17:52:24Z Senate S S 2006-08-03 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-08-03T23:20:39Z Long-term Care Quality and Modernization Act of 2006 109 6199 HR 2006-10-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman . Related bill CRS 2006-09-12 Senate Star Print ordered on the bill. Floor 2006-08-03 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-08-03 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8828-8829) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-08-03 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. N L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2006-08-03 True Health Ambulances Bank accounts Cancer Chemotherapy Clinics Data banks Depreciation and amortization Disabled Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Education Emergency Management Employee training Federal aid to health facilities Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Governmental investigations Health information systems Health surveys Higher education Home care services Hospital care Hospital rates Income tax Information technology Insurance premiums Investment tax credit Labor and Employment Liability insurance Long-term care Long-term care insurance Maintenance and repair Medicaid Medical fees Medical malpractice Medicare Mental care facilities Nurse practitioners Nurses Nursing Nursing education Nursing homes Paramedical personnel Physicians Physicians' assistants Quality of care Reprogramming of appropriated funds Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Student loan funds Tax credits Tax deductions Tax exclusion Tax exemption Taxation Terminal care Wages Health 00 2006-08-03 Introduced in Senate 2006-10-27T15:56:19Z Long-Term Care Quality and Modernization Act of 2006 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to long-term care.

Amends SSA titles XVIII and XIX to require states to establish a process for joint training and education of nursing home surveyors and providers at least annually as changes to nursing facility regulations, guidelines, and policy are implemented and used in surveys of participating facilities.

Amends SSA titles XVIII and XIX with respect to: (1) facility-based training for new surveyors; and (2) resumption of nurse aid training programs for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) after correction of deficiencies.

Permits split or shared Medicare billing by physicians and nurse practitioners in SNFs.

Amends SSA title XVIII to permit nurse practitioners employed by SNFs to certify skilled care.

Directs the the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a condition-based system of physical therapy services based on medical necessity, including a standardized patient assessment tool for evaluating service levels and limiting Medicare coverage.

Amends SSA title XVIII with respect to: (1) Medicare SNF specific wages; (2) authority to exclude high cost and low probability cancer treatment drugs as well as additional items and services from the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for SNFs; and (4) exclusion of all ambulance services from that PPS.

Directs the Secretary to establish a national nursing database to predict future nursing shortages.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require annual reports to the Secretary on nursing levels.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for: (1) a 10-year recovery period for qualified long-term care improvement property; (2) an investment tax credit for long-term care facility information technology; (3) tax-exempt long-term care trust accounts to which an individual may contribute up to $5,000 annually; (4) a refundable tax credit for 10% of annual contributions to such an account; and (5) an income exclusion for certain distributions from such an account for chronically-ill individuals.

Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to make contributions for repair or replacement to the owner or operator of a long-term care facility damaged or destroyed by a major disaster.

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