3.0.0 898 2023-01-13T04:48:04Z 2023-01-13T04:48:04Z Senate S S 2005-04-25 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2005-05-25T20:33:08Z Markup by 2005-04-27T22:15:25Z Referred to 2005-04-25T21:47:58Z S. Rept. 109-73 Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 109 1812 HR 2005-06-29 Became Public Law No: 109-18. Related bill CRS Related bill House 2005-05-25 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 115. Calendars 2005-05-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-73. Committee 2005-05-25 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-73. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee 2005-04-27 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2005-04-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4191-4192) IntroReferral 2005-04-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001016 Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX] KAY HUTCHISON R TX BAILEY N B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2005-04-25 True B000953 Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS] SAM BROWNBACK R KS 2005-04-25 True K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2005-04-25 True C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2005-04-25 True T000024 Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] JIM TALENT R MO 2005-06-22 False 2005-05-05T04:00:00Z S. 898, Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 http://www.cbo.gov/publication/16502 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on April 27, 2005</p> 2005-05-05T04:00:00Z S. 898, Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16502 Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on April 27, 2005 H.R.1812 https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/1812 Health Access to health care Armed Forces and National Security Cancer Case management Child health Chronically ill Clinical trials Community health services Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Drugs Economics and Public Finance Employee training Families Federal aid to health facilities Finance and Financial Sector Governmental investigations Health education Health insurance Housing and Community Development Indian medical care Labor and Employment Law Legal fees Medicaid Medical ethics Medical personnel Medical savings accounts Medical screening Medical tests Medically uninsured Medicare Military medicine Minorities Native Americans Performance measurement Poor children Prescription pricing Preventive medicine Quality of care Recruiting of employees Rural health Social Welfare Veterans' medical care Health 00 2005-04-25 Introduced in Senate 2005-06-13T19:54:09Z Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to eligible entities for the development and operation of demonstration programs to provide patient navigator services to improve health care outcomes. Requires the Secretary to coordinate with, and ensure the participation of, the Indian Health Service, the National Cancer Institute, and the Office of Rural Health Policy.

Requires that each grantee agree to recruit, assign, train, and employ patient navigators who have direct knowledge of the communities they serve to facilitate the care of individuals.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) direct that each application for a grant outline how the eligible entity will establish baseline measures and benchmarks that meet the Secretary's requirements to evaluate program outcomes; (2) establish uniform baseline measures in order to properly evaluate the impact of the demonstration projects; (3) give preference to those entities that demonstrate plans to utilize patient navigator services to overcome significant barriers to improve health care outcomes within their respective communities; and (4) ensure coordination of the grant programs under this Act with existing authorized programs to facilitate access to high-quality health care services.

]]> 01 2005-05-25 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2005-08-19T20:02:38Z Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to eligible entities for the development and operation of demonstration programs to provide patient navigator services to improve health care outcomes. Requires the Secretary to coordinate with, and ensure the participation of, the Indian Health Service, the National Cancer Institute, and the Office of Rural Health Policy.

Requires that each grantee agree to recruit, assign, train, and employ patient navigators who have direct knowledge of the communities they serve to facilitate the care of individuals, including by: (1) acting as contacts for individuals seeking prevention or early detection services for cancer or other chronic diseases; (2) facilitating the involvement of community organizations to provide better access to high-quality health care services to individuals at risk for, or who have, cancer or other chronic diseases; (3) coordinating with the relevant health insurance ombudsman programs to provide information to such individuals about health coverage; (4) notifying individuals of clinical trials; (5) helping patients overcome barriers within the health care system to ensure prompt diagnostic and treatment resolution of an abnormal finding of cancer or other chronic disease; and (6) conducting ongoing outreach to health disparity populations.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) require each grant recipient to prohibit patient navigators from accepting anything of value in return for referring an individual to a particular health care provider; and (2) prohibit the use of any grant funds to pay any fees or costs resulting from any proceeding to resolve a legal dispute. Allows the Secretary to grant awards for a period of no more than three years, with a one-year extension.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) direct that each grant application outline how the eligible entity will establish baseline measures and benchmarks that meet the Secretary's requirements to evaluate program outcomes; (2) establish uniform baseline measures to properly evaluate the impact of the demonstration projects; (3) give preference to those entities that demonstrate plans to utilize patient navigator services to overcome significant barriers to improve health care outcomes within their respective communities; and (4) ensure coordination of the grant programs under this Act with existing authorized programs to facilitate access to high-quality health care services.

Requires the Secretary to study the program and report to Congress on the results, including an evaluation of program outcomes and recommendations as to whether such programs could be used to improve patient outcomes in other public health areas.

Sets forth reporting requirements.

Authorizes appropriations.

]]> Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 Display Title Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 Short Titles as Reported to Senate Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 S Senate Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a demonstration grant program to provide patient navigator services to reduce barriers and improve health care outcomes, and for other purposes. Reported to Senate 2005-05-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s898rs/xml/BILLS-109s898rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2005-04-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s898is/xml/BILLS-109s898is.xml 2005-05-25 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 115. 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.