Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
- Last Action
- 12/17/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-17Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2024-09-18Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 18.
- 2024-09-18Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2024-05-16Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 12.
- 2024-05-16Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2023-05-12Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-05-11Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2023-05-11Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2023-05-11Introduced in House
- 2023-05-11Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-05-11 (00)
Ensuring Seniors' Access to Quality Care Act
This bill repeals certain restrictions under Medicare and Medicaid that prohibit the approval of nurse-aide training and competency evaluation programs in skilled nursing facilities that have been subject to specified regulatory actions (e.g., civil penalties) for substandard quality of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must still disapprove such programs for up to two years; however, the CMS must rescind the disapproval upon completion of corrective action and may require additional oversight of the program for purposes of rescission.
The bill also allows Medicaid and Medicare providers (e.g., skilled nursing facilities) to access, through the National Practitioner Data Bank, disciplinary information for affiliated physicians and other health care practitioners, as reported by state licensing authorities.
Cosponsors (13)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
- Jerry Carl (R-AL)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- Rudy Yakym (R-IN)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
- Andy Barr (R-KY)
- Donald Davis (D-NC)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
- Yadira Caraveo (D-CO)
- Greg Pence (R-IN)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Employee performance
- Employment and training programs
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health personnel
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medicare
- Nursing
- Performance measurement
- Personnel records
- State and local government operations
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