3.0.0 3318 2023-01-11T13:20:01Z 2023-01-11T13:20:01Z Senate S S 2010-05-05 111 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-05-05T21:07:10Z Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2009 111 2279 HR 2009-10-08 Subcommittee Hearings Held. Related bill CRS 2010-05-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2010-05-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N Health Cancer Health care quality Health information and medical records Medicare Performance measurement Women's health Health 00 2010-05-05 Introduced in Senate 2010-05-17T20:40:09Z Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a breast cancer treatment quality performance system to: (1) assess and disclose publicly, through the use of quality measures, the quality of care provided for the treatment of breast cancer by specified health care providers; and (2) base payment to such providers for such treatment on their performance with respect to such measures.

Requires reduced payments to providers that either do not submit data in accordance with the reporting process in the system, or furnish low quality care for treatment of breast cancer.

]]> Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010 Display Title Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate contributing factors to disparities in breast cancer treatment through the development of a uniform set of consensus-based breast cancer treatment performance measures for a 6-year quality reporting system and value-based purchasing system under the Medicare Program. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2010 Introduced in Senate 2010-05-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s3318is/xml/BILLS-111s3318is.xml 2010-05-05 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.