3.0.0 647 2023-01-11T13:19:42Z 2023-01-11T13:19:42Z Senate S S 2009-03-19 111 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-03-19T19:22:05Z 2009-03-19 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2009-03-19 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3555-3556) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. 2009-03-19 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2009-07-20 False C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2009-10-22 False Health Aging Allied health services Business records Congressional oversight Consumer affairs Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Medicaid Medicare Wages and earnings Health 00 2009-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2009-04-27T17:13:51Z Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities to make available ownership and additional disclosable parties information for submission to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the state in which the facility is located, and in certain instances the state long-term care ombudsman.

Outlines accountability requirements for such institutions.

Directs the Secretary to establish a quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) program for SNFs, including multi-unit chains of such facilities.

Requires specified additional information to appear on the HHS Nursing Home Compare Medicare Website.

Requires SNFs to separately report expenditures for wages and benefits for different levels of direct care staff.

Directs the Secretary to develop a standardized form for use by a resident (or a person acting on the resident's behalf) in filing a complaint about a SNF with a state survey and certification agency or long-term care ombudsman program. Requires a state to establish a complaint resolution process.

Directs the Secretary to establish a program for SNFs to report staffing information based on payroll data and other verifiable and auditable data in a uniform format.

Outlines rules governing civil monetary penalties for SNF violations.

Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the financial status, resident care, and performance of SNFs and nursing facilities in the Special Focus Facility (or a successor) program of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relative to a comparable sample of facilities outside such program.

Directs the Secretary to establish a national independent monitoring pilot program to oversee interstate and large intrastate chains of SNFs.

Requires a SNF administrator to notify the Secretary and other responsible parties of an impending closure of the facility.

Directs the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects on the culture change movement and the development of best practices in SNFs and nursing facilities for the use of information technology to improve resident care.

Directs the Secretary establish requirements for the approval of nurse aide training and competency evaluation programs that include dementia management training and patient abuse prevention training.

Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on training for certified nurse aides and supervisory staff of SNFs and nursing facilities.


]]> Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2009 Display Title Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the transparency of information on skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities and to clarify and improve the targeting of the enforcement of requirements with respect to such facilities. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-03-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s647is/xml/BILLS-111s647is.xml 2009-03-19 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.