3.0.0 4083 2019-11-15T21:54:02Z 2019-11-15T21:54:02Z Senate S S 2006-12-06 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-12-06T18:40:56Z Medication Safety Act of 2006 109 6380 HR 2006-12-06 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Related bill CRS 2006-12-06 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-12-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000504 Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] RICHARD LUGAR R IN GREEN N B001233 Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] EVAN BAYH D IN 2006-12-06 True Health Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Hospital care Hospital rates Housing and Community Development Medicare Quality of care Rural health Social Welfare Health 00 2006-12-06 Introduced in Senate 2006-12-18T19:55:22Z Hospital Quality Reporting Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare), as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, with respect to requirements for payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt certain consensus-based measures, approved by national organizations with health care quality expertise, which are designed to reduce the likelihood of hospital medication errors.

]]> Hospital Quality Reporting Improvement Act of 2006 Short Titles as Introduced Hospital Quality Reporting Improvement Act of 2006 Display Title Hospital Quality Reporting Improvement Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require reporting of quality measures by hospitals in order to reduce medication errors. Introduced in Senate 2006-12-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s4083is/xml/BILLS-109s4083is.xml 2006-12-06 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.