3.0.0 708 2019-11-15T21:52:42Z 2019-11-15T21:52:42Z Senate S S 2005-04-05 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-04-05T21:26:44Z 2005-04-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2005-04-05 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3214-3215) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-04-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. 2005-04-05 True Health Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Long-term care Medical personnel Medical statistics Medicare Nurses Nursing Nursing homes Performance measurement Quality of care Social Welfare Health 00 2005-04-05 Introduced in Senate 2005-04-20T15:43:56Z Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish between ten and 15 additional quality measures applicable to skilled nursing facilities, including a risk adjustment methodology reflecting differences in care, not differences in resident population characteristics.

]]> Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005 Display Title Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide medicare beneficiaries with access to information concerning the quality of care provided by skilled nursing facilities and to provide incentives to skilled nursing facilities to improve the quality of care provided by those facilities by linking the amount of payment under the medicare program to quality reporting and performance requirements, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2005-04-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s708is/xml/BILLS-109s708is.xml 2005-04-05 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.