3.0.0 3674 2020-02-10T17:02:39Z 2020-02-10T17:02:39Z Senate S S 2008-10-01 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-10-02T01:22:08Z 21st Century Wellness Trust Act 110 7287 HR 2008-11-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2008-10-01 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-10-01 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10337) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-10-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N Health Advice and consent of the Senate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community health services Congress Congressional reporting requirements Continuing education Department of Health and Human Services Economics and Public Finance Education Executive reorganization Government Operations and Politics Government trust funds Health information systems Health insurance Health planning Health services administration Higher education Law Licenses Medical education Medical personnel Medical records Presidential appointments Preventive medicine Health 00 2008-10-01 Introduced in Senate 2009-01-12T21:13:56Z 21st Century Wellness Trust Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Wellness Trust within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be headed by the Trust Fund Board. Requires the Trustees to submit to Congress and make publicly available reports on: (1) a system for certification and recertification of prevention health workers to complement the health system; (2) payment methodologies and options for paying certified prevention health workers for clinical preventive care; and (3) the amount of money spent on prevention by public health, public and private health insurers, and applicable self-insured health plans during the most recent year for which such data is available.

Requires the Trustees to: (1) establish a plan for delivering and financing prevention priorities and implement pilot programs; and (2) issue a ranked list of designated prevention priorities based on the potential of an activity to improve health and the activity's cost effectiveness.

Directs the Trustees to establish, support, and sustain the infrastructure for an effective wellness system that includes: (1) an information clearinghouse on prevention priorities; (2) an electronic prevention record or registry; and (3) training for prevention health workers.

Establishes in the Treasury a Wellness Trust Fund. Sets forth funding sources.

Requires the Trust to enter into contracts to reimburse certified prevention health workers for the prevention services designated by the Trustees as prevention priorities. Directs the Trustees to: (1) develop targets for and determine payment methodologies for prevention priorities.

]]> 21st Century Wellness Trust Act Short Titles as Introduced 21st Century Wellness Trust Act Display Title 21st Century Wellness Trust Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Wellness Trust. Introduced in Senate 2008-10-01T04:00:00Z 2008-10-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.