3.0.0 660 2023-01-11T13:19:42Z 2023-01-11T13:19:42Z Senate S S 2009-03-19 111 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-03-19T22:04:27Z National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 111 756 HR 2009-03-31 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2009-03-19 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2009-03-19 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3571) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2009-03-19 True W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2009-04-22 False F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2009-05-21 False R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2009-06-10 False S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2009-07-15 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2009-07-27 False Health Department of Health and Human Services Education programs funding Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Health care coverage and access Health information and medical records Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Medical education Medical research Neurological disorders Research administration and funding Health 00 2009-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2009-05-21T18:20:17Z National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to seek an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to convene a Conference on Pain to: (1) increase the recognition of pain as a significant public health problem in the United States; (2) evaluate the adequacy of assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic pain; (3) identify barriers to appropriate pain care; and (4) establish an agenda to reduce such barriers and significantly improve the state of pain care research, education, and clinical care in the United States. Allows the Secretary to enter into an agreement with another appropriate entity if the Institute of Medicine declines.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue and expand, through the Pain Consortium, an aggressive program of basic and clinical research on the causes of and potential treatments for pain. Requires the Pain Consortium to develop and make recommendations on appropriate pain research initiatives.

Requires the Secretary to establish the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee to: (1) develop a summary of advances in federal pain care research relevant to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of pain and diseases and disorders associated with pain; and (2) identify critical gaps in basic and clinical research on the symptoms and causes of pain.

Allows the Secretary to provide for education and training to health care professionals in pain care.

Requires the Secretary to establish and implement a national pain care education outreach and awareness campaign to educate consumers, patients, their families, and other caregivers.

]]> National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 Display Title National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-03-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s660is/xml/BILLS-111s660is.xml 2009-03-19 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.