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101 records in US in 1982
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982
Designates the week beginning on October 24, 1982, as National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Amends the Public Health Service Act to specify that health maintenance organizations may provide clinical psychologist services.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Health Planning Deregulation Act of 1982 - Replaces existing title XV (National Health Planning and Development) of the Public Health Service Act with a new title XV (Health Planning Deregulation). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983. Bases State allotments on population, with a minimum allotment of $100,000. States that funds may be used for: (1) State or local health planning; and (2) experiments designed to promote competition in health care financing and delivery. Requires States to: (1) provide at least 25 percent funding; and (2) file audits and reports.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Designates the week beginning on October 24, 1982, as National Parkinson's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of November 30 through December 5, 1982, as National Preventive Dentistry for the Elderly Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) nursing facility Medicare compliance surveys should be conducted at least annually; (2) reinspections for violation corrections should be conducted within 90 days; (3) Federal funds for such surveys should continue; (4) the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals should not have the authority to certify Medicare compliance; and (5) the proposed Department of Health and Human Services health care facilities certification regulations should not be adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for the professional services of a licensed or certified acupuncturists.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should not adopt as final certain proposed rules issued on May 24, 1982, relating to survey and certification procedures for nursing homes and other health care facilities and suppliers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit reimbursement to health care providers for costs incurred which are directly related to influencing employees respecting proposed unionization.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Authorizes the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, Incorporated, to manufacture and distribute in interstate commerce the drug PROven for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Comprehensive Smoking Prevention Education Act of 1982 - Amends title XVII (Health Information and Health Promotion) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to inform the public of the health hazards of cigarettes through research, demonstration, and educational activities. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health to coordinate Federal and private activities. Requires the Committee to meet at least four times a year. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to change existing label warning provisions to require cigarette packages and advertisements to carry specified health warnings. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package cigarettes for sale or distribution in the United States without package disclosure of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide levels (based on Federal Trade Commission tests). Requires the Commission to perform these tests at least once a year. Increases the fine for Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act violations from $10,000 to $100,000.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Medicare beneficiaries should not have to pay more out-of-pocket costs for health care under the Medicare program; and (2) any Medicare savings from budget cuts should not cause an increase in out-of-pocket Medicare expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain proposed health care facility certification regulations should be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) nursing facility Medicare compliance surveys should be conducted at least annually; (2) Federal funds for such surveys should continue; (3) the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals should not have the authority to certify Medicare compliance; and (4) the proposed Department of Health and Human Services health care facilities certification regulations should not be adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should not adopt as final certain proposed rules issued on May 24, 1982, relating to survey and certification procedures for nursing homes and other health care facilities and suppliers participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Designates the week beginning on November 21, 1982, as National Alzheimer's Disease Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Handicapped Infants Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect to conduct a study of child abuse or neglect in federally assisted or operated health care facilities. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) report the results of this study to the Congress within three months; and (2) give priority to information about adoption and foster care of handicapped infants. Prohibits doctors or other health care facility personnel from withholding nutrition or medical treatment from a handicapped infant. Provides a private right of action for violations of this Act. States that any punitive damage awards shall be used for the benefit of the infant involved in the suit, or if deceased, for research and treatment of handicapped infants. Directs the Center to establish and disseminate violations reporting procedures. Provides civil and criminal immunity and job protection for persons reporting such violations. Requires health care facilities to provide parents or guardians of handicapped infants with information about agency assistance for these infants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982
Makes technical changes in the Public Health Service Act. Transfers the administrative provisions of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1974 to the Public Health Service Act. Establishes an Assistant Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration to promote the prevention research programs of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Directs the Administrator to establish a process for appropriate response to information regarding scientific fraud and incidences of violations of the rights of human subjects in projects where funding is made available under this Act. Transfers specified provisions of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to the Public Health Service Act. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report containing: (1) current information on the health consequences of using alcoholic beverages; (2) a description of research findings made with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism; (3) the health consequences and extent of drug abuse in the United States; (4) research findings made with respect to drug abuse; and (5) recommendations for legislative and administrative action. Provides for technical and scientific peer review of biomedical and behavioral research and development grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. Authorizes appropriations for alcohol and drug abuse research for FY 1983 through 1985. Makes technical changes in the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act. Repeals sections of the Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 and the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, to conform with the provisions of this Act. Repeals the Marihuana Health Reporting Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982
Health Research Extension Act of 1982 - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966) consisting of the following 12 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional research institutes. Provides that: (1) NIH shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; (2) the Secretary acting through the Director shall be responsible for the overall direction of NIH, including specified administrative and supervisory functions; and (3) the Director shall delegate certain program promotion and coordination functions to an Assistant Director including the formulation of a long-range disease Prevention Plan. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Director; and (2) prepare a biennial report on its activities. Requires a biennial report to be submitted by the Secretary to the President and to Congress consisting of: (1) a description of NIH's activities and a five-year plan for future activities and policies; (2) the biennial report of the Advisory Board; and (3) the biennial reports of the directors of each of the national research institutes and their advisory councils. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the President and the Directors of the other national research institutes shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspects of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each institute. Sets forth the duties of such advisory councils, including the periodic review of research. Requires the director of each institute to prepare a biennial report. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Cancer Institute. Requires that cancer control programs under the Institute include demonstration methods for disseminating cancer prevention information to the public. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on cancer. Authorizes such Director to: (1) support production or distribution of therapeutic substances for cancer research, including biological materials, and set safety standards for their use; (2) with the approval of such Institute's advisory council, support certain cancer research by foreign nationals outside the United States, encourage collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, and train Americans abroad or foreign nationals in the United States; (3) support education and training programs; (4) coordinate certain research by industrial concerns; (5) hire experts and consultants; (6) acquire, repair, or construct facilities, including facilities in the District of Columbia; (7) appoint advisory committees; (8) enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions; and (9) submit an annual budget estimate to the President. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting cooperative agreements to establish cancer research and demonstration centers, and extends the period of support for a center to five years (with additional extensions of not more than five years). Eliminates the existing requirement that at least two members of the President's Cancer Panel be scientists or physicians, and requires the filling of vacancies within 90 days of their occurrence. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to collect and disseminate information on research, treatment, and prevention of such diseases. Requires special emphasis to be placed on cardiovascular diseases and programs designed for children. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting research and demonstration centers for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. States that the general purpose of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is the conduct and support of research, training, and related programs respecting diabetes and endocrine and metabolic diseases, digestive diseases and nutrition, and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Directs the Secretary to establish information and education centers for: (1) diabetes; (2) digestive diseases; and (3) kidney diseases. Establishes in such Institute: (1) the National Digestive Diseases Data System; (2) the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse; (3) the National Kidney Diseases Data System; and (4) the National Kidney Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Authorizes the Associate Directors of the Institute to carry out research and training support programs in their respective areas. Establishes: (1) a Kidney and Urologic Diseases Coordinating Committee; and (2) a Skin Disease Interagency Coordinating Committee. Establishes the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. Extends the terms of such Institute's advisory boards through FY 1985. Transfers responsibility for multipurpose diabetes centers from the Secretary to the Director. Extends the initial assistance period to five years, with additional extensions of up to five years. Establishes: (1) digestive diseases and kidney and urologic diseases research centers; and (2) Advisory Council subcommittees. Requires the Director to conduct research in diet therapy for kidney failure, and to report to the Congress by January 1, 1986. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Requires such Institute to include in its biennial report a description of activities under the diabetes and digestive diseases plans. Establishes the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in NIH. Requires the Institute to develop a national plan for research and related activities. Establishes: (1) the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Data System; (2) the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Information Clearinghouse; and (3) an Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases demonstration projects. Establishes multipurpose arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases centers. Sets five- year support periods for these centers (with additional extensions of not more than five years), Requires the Institute to submit a biennial report. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Institutes of: (1) Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (2) Child Health and Human Development; (3) Dental Research; (4) Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (5) General Medical Sciences; (6) Environmental Health Sciences; and (7) Mental Health. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Eye Institute and the National Institute on Aging. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Spinal Cord Injury. Requires a report to Congress not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year. Terminates such Committee on September 30, 1985. Authorizes appropriations for National Research Service Awards through FY 1985. Limits the scope of the Institutional Review Board's authority regarding federally-financed research. Exempts research which does not involve human risk from such review authority. Requires the Director of NIH to establish procedures for periodic, technical, and scientific peer review of NIH research. States that such procedures shall require that: (1) the reviewing entity be given a written description of the research to be reviewed; and (2) such entity shall provide the advisory council of the institute involved with the results of such review. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) accept certain conditional gifts for NIH or a national research institute; and (2) establish suitable memorials for donations of $50,000 or more. States that the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are agencies of NIH. Terminates the National Advisory Health Council. Makes technical changes in specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act and other Federal health laws. Transfers the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Center for Health Statistics from the Public Health Service to NIH. Eliminates FY 1983 and 1984 funding authorizations for the National Center for Health Care Technology. Transfers the National Library of Medicine from the Public Health Service to NIH. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases to report to the appropriate congressional committes by December 31, 1982, regarding expanded Institute research. Requires the Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, and Allergies and Infectious Diseases to conduct a joint pertussis vaccine study. Requires a report to Congress by January 1, 1984. Requires the Instititue on Aging to conduct a study of personnel for the health needs of the elderly. Requires a report to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1, 1984. Provides for a study of the effects of commercialization on biomedical research. Requires completion of this study by September 30, 1984. Requires NIH to: (1) assist (through September 30, 1984) scientists associated with small business in preparing grant and contract applications under title IV of such Act; (2) insure that such scientists are invited to participate on peer review committees; and (3) report on these activities to the appropriate congressional committees by September 30, 1984. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities. Requires a report to Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Committee 90 days after such report is submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Amends title XVII (Health Information and Health Promotion) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for health information and promotion programs through FY 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for medical libraries through FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Locates the National Center for Health Statistics in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (in the Department of Health and Human Services) for FY 1983 and 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966) consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional research institutes. Provides that: (1) the NIH shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; (2) the Secretary acting through the Director shall be responsible for the overall direction of NIH, including specified administrative and supervisory functions; (3) the Director shall delegate to an Assistant Director certain program promotion and coordination functions, including the formulation of a long-range disease Prevention Plan; and (4) the Director shall submit an annual budget estimate to the President and the Congress. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Director; and (2) prepare a biennial report on its activities. Requires a biennial report to be submitted by the Secretary to the President and to Congress consisting of: (1) a description of the NIH's activities and a five-year plan for future activities and policies; (2) the biennial report of the Advisory Board; and (3) the biennial reports of the directors of each of the national research institutes and their advisory councils. Requires the Director to establish Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the President and the Directors of the other national research institutes shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each institute. Sets forth the duties of such advisory councils, including the periodic review of research. Requires the director of each institute to prepare a biennial report. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983, 1984, and 1985. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Cancer Institute. Requires that cancer control programs under the Institute include demonstration methods for disseminating cancer prevention information to the public. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on cancer. Authorizes such Director to: (1) support production or distribution of therapeutic substances for cancer research, including biological materials, and set safety standards for their use; (2) with the approval of such Institute's advisory council, support certain cancer research by foreign nationals outside the United States, encourage collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, and train Americans abroad or foreign nationals in the United States; (3) support education and training programs; (4) coordinate certain research by industrial concerns; (5) hire experts and consultants; (6) acquire, repair, or construct facilities, including facilities in the District of Columbia; (7) appoint advisory committees; (8) enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions; and (9) submit an annual budget estimate to the President. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting cooperative agreements to establish cancer research and demonstration centers, and extends the period of support for a center to five years (with additional extensions of not more than five years). Eliminates the existing requirement that at least two members of the President's Cancer Panel be scientists or physicians, and requires the filling of vacancies within 90 days of their occurrence. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to collect and disseminate information on research, treatment, and prevention of such diseases. Requires special emphasis to be placed on cardiovascular diseases and programs designed for children. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting research and demonstration centers for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Directs the Secretary to establish information and education centers for: (1) arthritis; (2) diabetes mellitus; (3) digestive diseases; and (4) kidney diseases. Establishes in such Institutes: (1) the National Arthritis Information Clearinghouse; (2) the National Digestive Diseases Data System; (3) the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse; (4) the National Kidney Diseases Data System; and (5) the National Kidney Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Authorizes the Associate Directors of the Institute to carry out research and training support programs in their respective areas. Establishes: (1) a Kidney and Urologic Diseases Coordinating Committee; and (2) a Skin Disease Interagency Coordinating Committee. Establishes the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. Extends the terms of such Institutes's advisory boards through FY 1985. Transfers responsibility for multipurpose arthritis and diabetes centers from the Secretary to the Director. Extends the initial assistance period to five years, with additional extensions of up to five years. Establishes: (1) digestive diseases and kidney and urologic diseases reseach centers; and (2) Advisory Council subcommittees. Requires such Institute to include in its biennial reports a description of activities under the arthritis, diabetes, and digestive diseases plans. Requires the Director to conduct research in diet therapy for kidney failure, and to report to the Congress by January 1, 1986. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute on Aging. Transfers the responsibility for public information and education programs on aging from the Secretary to the Director of such Institute. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Institutes of: (1) Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (2) Child Health and Human Development; (3) Dental Research; (4) Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (5) General Medical Sciences; and (6)Environmental Health Sciences. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Eye Institutes. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Spinal Cord Injury. Requires a report to Congress not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year. Terminates such Committee on September 30, 1985. Authorizes appropriations for National Research Service Awards through FY 1985. Limits the scope of the Institutional Review Board's authority to review federally-financed research. Exempts research which does not involve human risk from such review authority. Requires the Director of NIH to establish procedures for periodic, technical, and scientific peer review of NIH research. States that such procedures shall require that: (1) the reviewing entity be given a written description of the research to be reviewed; and (2) such entity shall provide the advisory council of the institute involved with the results of such review. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) accept certain conditional gifts for the NIH or a national research institute; and (2) establish suitable memorials for donations of $50,000 or more. Establishes in the Public Health Service a National Institute on Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases. Requires a plan for a national program to be developed and transmitted to Congress within 180 days. Provides for the development and modernization of new and existing multipurpose arthritis and muscular disease research centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Establishes an Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Coordinating Committee. Requires a report to the Secretary within 60 days of the end of each fiscal year. Terminates the National Health Advisory Council. Makes technical changes in specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act and other Federal laws. Eliminates FY 1983 and 1984 funding authorizations for the National Center for Health Care Technology. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 31, 1982, regarding expanded Institute research. Provides for a study of the effects of commercialization on biomedical research. Requires completion of this study by September 30, 1984. Requires the NIH to: (1) assist (through September 30, 1984) scientists associated with small business in preparing grant and contract applications under title IV of such Act; (2) insure that such scientists are invited to participate on peer review committees; and (3) report on these activities to the appropriate congressional committees by September 30, 1984. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities. Requires a report to Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Committee 90 days after such report is submitted. Requires the Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, and Allergies and Infectious Diseases to conduct a joint pertussis vaccine study. Requires a report to Congress by January 1, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Amends the Public Health Service Act to transfer the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from the Public Health Service to the National Institutes of Health.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Makes technical changes in the Public Health Service Act. Transfers the administrative provisions of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1974 to the Public Health Service Act. Establishes an Assistant Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration to promote the preventive research programs of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Directs the Administrator to establish a process for appropriate response to information regarding scientific fraud and incidences of violations of the rights of human subjects in projects where funding is made available under this Act. Transfers specified provisions of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to the Public Health Service Act. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report containing: (1) current information on the health consequences of using alcoholic beverages; (2) a description of research findings made with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism; (3) the health consequences and extent of drug abuse in the United States; (4) research findings made with respect to drug abuse; and (5) recommendations for legislative and administrative action. Provides for technical and scientific peer review of biomedical and behavioral research and development grants, cooperative agreements and contracts. Authorizes appropriations for alcohol and drug abuse research for FY 1983 through 1985. Makes technical changes in the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act. Repeals sections of the Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 and the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act to conform with the provisions of this Act. Repeals the Marihuana Health Reporting Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Makes technical and conforming amendments to: (1) the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; (2) the Public Health Service Act; (3) the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970; (4) the Controlled Substances Act; (5) the Consumer Product Safety Act; (6) the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970; and (7) the Health Planning and Resources Development Amendments of 1970. Amends the Public Health Service Act, effective as of October 1, 1982, to include specified mental health demonstration funds in the block grant retraining allocation formula. Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to provide that for purposes of remedies respecting banned hazardous substances: (1) the term "manufacturer" includes an importer for resale; and (2) a dealer who sells an article or substance wholesale shall be considered the distributor for such sale. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY 1984 for nurse anesthetist training. Requires a baccalaureate degree (currently a postbaccalureate degree is required) for specified nonpublic health school graduate health traineeships. Provides that funds appropriated under title VIII (Nurse Training) of such Act may be used to provide technical assistance for any authority under such title. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to sell real property pledged as security on specified medical facility loans. Eliminates the requirement that the National Center for Health Statistics serve as a clearinghouse for guideline information on the health effects of working conditions and the environment. Permits grants to community health centers serving underserved populations for the purpose of repaying certain Farmers Home Administration loans. Permits Public Health Service appointments in the field of psychology.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Health Research, Library, and Promotion Programs Extension Act of 1982 - Title I: Health Research - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (abolished as statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional research institutes. Provides that: (1) the NIH shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; (2) the Secretary acting through the Director shall be responsible for the overall direction of NIH, including specified administrative and supervisory functions; and (3) the Director shall delegate to an Assistant Director certain program promotion and coordination functions, including the formulation of a long-range disease Prevention Plan. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Director; and (2) prepare a biennial report on its activities. Requires a biennial report to be submitted by the Secretary to the President and to Congress consisting of: (1) a description of the NIH's activities and a five-year plan for future activities and policies; (2) the biennial report of the Advisory Board; and (3) the biennial reports of the directors of each of the national research institutes and the biennial reports of their advisory councils. Requires the Director of NIH to establish Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the President, and the Directors of the other national research institutes shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each institute. Sets forth the duties of such advisory councils, including the periodic review of research. Requires the director of each institute to prepare a biennial report. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Cancer Institute. Requires that cancer control programs under the Institute include demonstration methods for disseminating cancer prevention information to the public. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on cancer. Authorizes the Director to: (1) support production or distribution of therapeutic substances for cancer research, including biological materials, and set standards for their use; (2) support certain cancer research by foreign nationals outside the United States, encourage collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, and train Americans abroad or foreign nationals in the United States; (3) support education and training programs; (4) coordinate certain research by industrial concerns; (5) hire experts and consultants; (6) acquire, repair, or construct facilities, including facilities in the District of Columbia; (7) appoint advisory committees; (8) enter into contracts, leases, or other transactions; and (9) submit an annual budget estimate to the President. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting cancer research and demonstration centers, and extends the period of support for a center to five years (with additional extensions of not more than five years). Eliminates the existing requirement that at least two members of the President's Cancer Panel be scientists or physicians, and requires the filling of vacancies within 90 days. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on research, treatment, and prevention of such diseases. Requires special emphasis to be placed on cardiovascular diseases and programs designed for children. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting research and demonstration centers for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Establishes in such Institute: (1) the National Arthritis Information Clearinghouse; (2) the National Digestive Diseases Data System; (3) the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse; (4) the National Kidney Diseases Data System; and (5) the National Kidney Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Authorizes the Associate Directors of the Institute to carry out research and training support programs in their respective areas. Establishes: (1) a Kidney and Urologic Diseases Coordinating Committee; and (2) a Skin Disease Interagency Coordinating Committee. Establishes the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. Extends the terms of such Institute's Advisory Boards through FY 1985. Transfers responsibility for multipurpose arthritis and diabetes centers from the Secretary to the directors. Extends the initial assistance period to five years, with additional extensions of up to five years. Establishes: (1) digestive diseases and kidney and urologic diseases research centers; and (2) Advisory Council subcommittees. Requires such Institute to include in its biennial report a description of activities under the arthritis, diabetes, and digestive diseases plans. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute on Aging. Transfers the responsibility for public information and education programs on aging from the Secretary to the Director of such Institute. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Institutes of: (1) Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (2) Child Health and Human Development; (3) Dental Research; (4) Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (5) General Medical Sciences; (6) Environmental Health Sciences; and (7) Mental Health. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Eye Institute. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Spinal Cord Injury. Requires a report to Congress not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year. Terminates such Committee on September 30, 1985. Authorizes appropriations for National Research Service Awards through FY 1985. Limits the scope of the Institutional Review Board's authority to review federally-financed research. Exempts research which does not involve human risk from such review authority. Requires the Director of NIH to establish procedures for periodic, technical and scientific peer review of NIH research. States that such procedures shall require that: (1) the reviewing entity be given a written description of the research to be reviewed; and (2) such entity shall provide the advisory council of the institute involved with the results of such review. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) accept certain conditional gifts for the NIH or a national research institute; and (2) establish suitable memorials for donations of $50,000 or more. States that the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are agencies of NIH. Terminates the National Advisory Health Council. Eliminates FY 1983 and 1984 funding authorizations for the National Center for Health Care Technology. Transfers the National Center for Health Statistics from the Public Health Service to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services for FY 1983 and 1984. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 31, 1982, regarding expanded Institute research. Provides for a study of the effects of commercialization on biomedical research. Requires completion of this study by September 30, 1984. Requires the NIH to: (1) assist (through September 30, 1984) scientists associated with small businesses in preparing grant and contract applications under title IV of such Act; (2) insure that such scientists are invited to participate on peer review committees; and (3) report on these activities to the appropriate congressional committees by September 30, 1984. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities. Requires such Committee to report to Congress within 18 months. Title II: Assistance to Medical Libraries - Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 for the National Library of Medicine. Title III: ADAMHA and the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse - Redesignates existing title V of the Public Health Service Act as title XXI and adds a new title V (Administration and Coordination of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse). Transfers statutory authority for the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and for the National Institute of Drug Abuse to the Public Health Service Act. Delineates alcohol and drug abuse authorities under such Act. Consolidates various congressional reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985. Title IV: Health Information and Health Promotion - Authorizes appropriations for health information and health promotion programs for FY 1983 through 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Health Planning Amendments of 1982 - Amends title XV (National Health Planning and Development) of the Public Health Service Act to extend authorizations of appropriations for State health planning through FY 1985. Permits the Governor of any State to request the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exclude portions of the State from the health service areas. Eliminates the requirement that health service areas be established throughout the United States. Permits health service areas to be made up of less than 500,000 persons if the Governor determines that such population is essential for effective health planning. Requires a health system agency (HSA) to have a professional staff of at least five. Reduces the functions of the HSAs. Permits the Governor of any State to terminate existing HSAs. Requires the approval of the governor for the designation of any new HSAs. Requires, for an HSA to be eligible for Federal funds in FY 1983, that the Governor submit a plan for the collection by the HSA in FY 1984 and 1985 of non-Federal funds to meet matching requirements. Sets forth grant formulas. Requires that the State planning agency and the HSAs comply with the new requirements of this Act by September 30, 1983, to remain eligible for Federal funding. Revises Statewide Health Coordinating Council membership provisions. Eliminates certain triennial review requirements. Directs the Governor to make Council appointments (currently chosen from health systems agencies' nominees). Eliminates the one year conflict of interest prohibition on voting. Consolidates grant application procedures for specified planning and operating grants. Permits States with specified Social Security Act hospital cost review programs to apply to the Secretary for the authority to: (1) prescribe how State certificate of need programs will be carried out; and (2) determine which equipment, services, and capital expenditures and minimum amounts will be subject to such programs. Requires applications to specify the fiscal year in which such authority will be exercised. Requires States with approved applications to report annually to the Secretary. Eliminates health systems changes review authority for Statewide Health Coordinating Councils. Reduces from five to three the number of authorized health planning centers. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985. Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary make certain health systems agencies information available to the appropriate congressional committees. Eliminates specified reporting requirements. Eliminates special application provisions for certain States and territories.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Specifies the manner in which uncompensated services provided by a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility shall be calculated for purposes of titles VI (Assistance for Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities) and XVI (Health Resources Development) of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate admission requirements for these facilities which are identical to those in effect for medicaid and medicare-certified facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Amends the Public Health Service Act to permit psychologists to enter the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment for certain clinical psychologists' services under the supplemental medical insurance program. Increases the level of payment for outpatient mental health services to $1,000 annually.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Health Research, Library, Planning, and Promotion Programs Extension Act of 1982 - Title I: Health Research - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (abolished as statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes; the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Instititue of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional research institutes. Provides that: (1) the NIH shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; (2) the Secretary acting through the Director shall be responsible for the overall direction of NIH, including specified administrative and supervisory functions; and (3) the Director shall delegate certain program promotion and coordination functions to an Assistant Director, including the formulation of a long-range disease Prevention Plan. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Director; and (2) prepare a biennial report on its activities. Requires a biennial report to be submitted by the Secretary to the President and to Congress consisting of: (1) a description of the NIH's activities, and a five-year plan for future activities and policies; (2) the biennial report of the Advisory Board; and (3) the biennial reports of the directors of each of the national research institutes, and the biennial reports of their advisory councils. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the President, and the Directors of the other national research institutes shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each institute. Sets forth the duties of such advisory councils, including the periodic review of research. Requires the director of each institute to prepare a biennial report. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Cancer Institute. Requires that cancer control programs under the Institute include demonstration methods for disseminating cancer prevention information to the public. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on cancer. Authorizes such Director to: (1) support production or distribtuion of therapeutic substances for cancer research, including biological materials, and set standards for their use; (2) with the approval of such Institute's advisory council, support certain cancer research by foreign nationals outside the United States, encourage collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, and train Americans abroad or foreign nationals in the United States (3) support education and training programs; (4) coordinate certain research by industrial concerns; (5) hire experts and consultants; (6) acquire, repair, or construct facilities, including facilities in the District of Columbia; (7) appoint advisory committees; (8) enter into contracts, leases, or other transaction; and (9) submit an annual budget estimate to the President. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting cooperative agreements to establish cancer research and demonstration centers, and extends the period of support for a center to five years (with additional extensions of not more than five years). Eliminates the existing requirement that at least two members of the President's Cancer Panel be scientists or physicians, and requires the filling of vacancies within 90 days of occurrence. States the general purpose and defines the scope of the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Institute, to establish an information and education center to collect and disseminate information on research, treatment, and prevention of such diseases. Requires special emphasis to be placed on cardiovascular diseases and programs designed for children. Deletes the existing limitation on aggregate payments respecting research and demonstration centers for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. States the general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Establishes in such Institute: (1) the National Arthritis Information Clearinghouse; (2) the National Digestive Diseases Data System; (3) the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse; (4) the National Kidney Diseases Data System; and (5) the National Kidney Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Authorizes the Associate Directors of the Institute to carry out research and training support programs in their respective areas. Establishes: (1) a Kidney and Urologic Diseases Coordinating Committee; and (2) a Skin Disease Interagency Coordinating Committee. Establishes the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. Extends the terms of such Institute's Advisory Boards throguh FY 1985. Transfers responsibility for multipurpose arthritis and diabetes centers from the Secretary to the Directors. Extends the initial assistance period to five years, with additional extensions of up to five years. Establishes: (1) digestive diseases and kidney and urologic diseases research centers; and (2) Advisory Council subcommittees. Requires such Institute to include in its biennial report a description of activities under the arthritis, diabetes, and digestive diseases plans. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Institute on Aging. Transfers the responsibility for public information and education programs on aging from the Secretary to the Director of such Institute. Sets forth the general purposes of the National Institutes of: (1) Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (2) Child Health and Human Development; (3) Dental Research; (4) Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (5) General Medical Sciences; (6) Environmental Health Sciences; and (7) Mental Health. Sets forth the general purpose of the National Eye Institute. Authorizes appropriations for National Research Service Awards through FY 1985. Limits the scope of the Institutional Review Board's authority to federally-financed research. Exempts research which does not involve human risk from such review authority. Requires the Director of NIH to establish procedures for periodic, technical and scientific peer review of NIH research. States that such procedures shall require that: (1) the reviewing entity be given a written description of the research to be reviewed; and (2) such entity shall provide the advisory council of the institute involved with the results of such review. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) accept certain conditional gifts for the NIH or a national research institute; and (2) establish suitable memorials for donations of $50,000 or more. States that the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Institution for Occupational Safety and Health are agencies of NIH. Terminates the National Advisory Health Council. Provides for a study of the effects of commercialization on biomedical research. Requires completion of this study by September 30, 1984. Requires the NIH to: (1) assist (through September 30, 1984) scientists associated with small businesses in preparing grant and contract applications under title IV of such Act; (2) insure that such scientists are invited to participate on peer review committees; and (3) report on these activities to the appropriate congressional committees by September 30, 1984. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities. Requires such Committee to report to Congress within 18 months. Title II: Assistance to Medical Libraries - Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985 for the National Library of Medicine. Title III: ADAMHA and the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse - Redesignates existing title V of the Public Health Service Act as title XXI and adds a new title V (Administration and Coordination of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse). Transfers statutory authority for the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and for the National Institute of Drug Abuse to the Public Health Service Act. Delineates alcohol and drug abuse authorities under such Act. Consolidates various congressional reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1985. Title IV: Health Planning - Eliminates the requirement that "health service areas" be coordinated to the maximum extent possible with State, regional, and Social Security Act standards. Permits State Governors to request health service area boundary revisions. Revises specified "health systems agency" (agency) staff provisions. Eliminates: (1) the annual implementation plan requirement; and (2) governing body membership requirements. Amends stated agency goals and functions. Limits the period of conditional designation of any agency to not beyond September 30, 1983, unless otherwise extended by the Secretary. Permits a Governor to request that an agency's conditional designation be terminated. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application for conditional designation or designation as a health systems agency without prior recommendation by the Governor of the State in which such agency is located. Eliminates the 12-month limit on the length of time the Secretary may redesignate an agency as conditional due to unsatisfactory performance. Amends planning grant provisions to: (1) establish grant formulas for FY 1983 through 1985 based on serviced population and collected non-Federal funds; (2) eliminate the five percent limit on funds for extraordinary expenses; (3) eliminate the pro rata grant reduction formula; (4) require grant applications to be submitted to the Secretary through the Governor of the State; (5) require applications to include State plans for non-Federal fund collection; and (6) authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Limits the period of State health planning and development agency (State agency) designation to not beyond September 30, 1983. Revises State agency review and reporting provisions. Entitles each health systems agency in a State to one representative on the Statewide Health Coordinating Council. Authorizes appropriations for State health planning and development for FY 1983 through 1984. Eliminates specified certificate of need program criteria. Reduces from five to three the required minimum number of operating health planning centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Eliminates specified requirements of the Secretary's review of health systems agencies and State agencies. Repeals the provision providing for special consideration as States (for purposes of national health planning and development) for U.S. territories and Puerto Rico. Title V: Health Information and Health Promotion - Authorizes appropriations for health information and health promotion programs for FY 1983 through 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1982, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Health Planning Block Grant Act of 1982 - Replaces title XV (National Health Planning and Development) of the Public Health Service Act with State health planning block grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) allotment division and use; (2) reports and audits; (3) the certificate of need program; and (4) State application review. Terminates the State health planning block grant program estblished by this Act three full fiscal years after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to establish in the Public Health Service a National Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to; (1) develop and expand diabetes research and training centers; and (2) evaluate such centers annually. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Directs the Secretary, with the Director of the Institute, to establish: (1) the Diabetes Data Group; (2) the Diabetes Information Clearinghouse; and (3) a diabetes data system. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to establish a diabetes and endocrine and metabolic disease coordinating committee to coordinate Federal activities with respect to such diseases. Requires the Committee to report annually to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board, whose duration shall expire on September 30, 1985. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Medicare Long-Term Care Act of 1982 - Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from premium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. States that the benefits provided to an individual under this Act shall consist of: (1) home health services; (2) homemaker services; (3) nutrition services; (4) long- term institutional care services; (5) day care and foster home services; and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Provides that the benefits provided under this Act shall not go into effect unless a State has a certified long-term care agency. Enumerates the requirements for certification of a State long-term care agency by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, including requiring such agency to monitor the activities of each community long-term care center in the State. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act by individuals who elect to participate in the long-term care program. Establishes the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a Board of Trustees of such Trust Fund, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, all ex officio. Requires a community long-term care center to: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each eligible individual who resides in the area served by such center and is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and evaluate periodically, but not less than annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all eligible individuals in its service area and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) perform such other functions as the Secretary of Health, and Human Services may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effectively carry out the purposes of this Act. Sets forth a formula by which payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers may be calculated. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Secretary. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Secretary shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method within 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Secretary a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Secretary in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Provides for increases in supplemental security income benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Requires the appropriate congressional committees to begin oversight hearings on: (1) the safety of the use of the pertussis vaccine; (2) the activities of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control respecting the use of the vaccine and the incidence of its side effects; and (3) the need for additional legislation respecting regulation of such vaccine. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Food and Drug Administration should begin an epidemiological study, and other appropriate studies, to determine whether or not it is consistent with public health to require or to promote the continued use of pertussis vaccine.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Veterans' Administration Health-Care Programs Improvement and Extension Act of 1982 - Expands the definition of "Veterans Administration facilities" to include private facilities the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs contracts with to provide specified medical services for a woman veteran. Extends the authority of the Administrator to contract with private facilities through FY 1983. Permits the Administrator to furnish physical examinations to determine the eligibility of individuals for or the appropriate course of treatment in connection with services furnished by the Administrator. Entitles any spouse, surviving spouse, or child who loses eligibility for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) by becoming entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title I of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, but then exhausts such benefits, to regain and retain eligibility for medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans. Extends the pilot program for the treatment and rehabilitation for alcohol or drug dependency or abuse disabilities through FY 1983. Includes all veterans cared for in State homes in the payment procedures formulated for the care of war veterans. Permits the Administrator to extend the period for which additional pay for nurses is authorized to include a tour of duty any part of which occurs on Saturday. Permits the Administrator to use flexible and compressed work schedules for certain health professionals to obtain or retain their services. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 1987. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress within four years on the use of such work schedules. Authorizes the Administrator to provide that nurses employed at a Veterans Administration facility who work two regularly scheduled 12-hour tours of duty within a weekend shall be considered to have worked a full workweek and be paid as specified. Reduces the obligation and stipend payable to a part-time student participating in the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program. Increases the time for which such a scholarship may be awarded. Extends authorizations for state home facilities for furnishing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to veterans through FY 1986. Directs the Administrator to publish regulations concerning increasing the amounts and periods of additional pay for health professionals in the Department of Medicine and Surgery.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Extends for one year the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 states.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Prohibits Federal involvement in the performance of abortions, except when the life of the mother would be endangered if the child were carried to term. Includes the following activities within the scope of this prohibition: (1) performance of an abortion by a Federal agency; (2) use of appropriated funds to perform or reimburse or refer for abortions; (3) use of funds for research or training with respect to abortion; or (4) contracting for insurance which pays or reimburses for abortion. Prohibits any institution receiving Federal funding from discriminating against any employee or student because of such person's opposition to abortion. Authorizes the bringing of individual or class actions in Federal court to enforce this Act. Provides for expedited Supreme Court review with regard to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1982
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Amends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1984. Consolidates and makes triennial certain reporting requirements. Abolishes the Interagency Committee on Federal Activities for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate (rather than merely to make available) research information on alcohol abuse. Directs the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to give grant priority to projects relating to the: (1) relationship between alcohol abuse and domestic violence; (2) effect of alcohol use during pregnancy; (3) effect of alcohol abuse on the family, and on social and health systems; (4) relationship between alcohol abuse and drugs; and (5) cost and effectiveness of treatment and prevention among youth, women, and the elderly. Title II: Drug Abuse - Amends the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through FY 1984. Emphasizes the coordination of Federal, State, and local efforts as part of the national policy on meeting drug abuse problems. Eliminates the annual reporting requirement. Makes the review of national drug abuse strategy a biennial (currently annual) requirement beginning with 1982. Consolidates and makes biennial (currently annual) special Department of Health and Human Services drug program reports, beginning with 1984. Includes current information of the health consequences of marihuana use and appropriate administrative and legislative action within such reports. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to disseminate National Institute on Drug Abuse information on the health hazards of drug abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1982
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for the services of a mental health specialist. Defines mental health specialist to mean a: (1) clinical psychologist; (2) clinical social worker; (3) psychiatric nurse specialist; or (4) psychiatrist.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1982
Health Planning Amendments of 1982 - Amends title XV (National Health Planning and Development) of the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for State health planning through FY 1985. Permits the Governor of any State to request the Secretary of Health and Human Serivces to exclude portions of the State from the health service areas. Eliminates the requirement that health service areas be established throughout the United States. Eliminates the requirement that a public health systems agency (HSA) which is a public regional planning body or a unit of local government have a separate governing body for health planning. Reduces the functions of the HSAs. Permits the Governor of any State to terminate existing HSAs. Requires the approval of the Governor for the designation of any new HSAs. Requires, for an HSA to be eligible for Federal funds in FY 1983, that the Governor submit a plan for the collection by the HSA in FY 1984 and 1985 of non-Federal funds to meet matching requirements. Requires that the State planning agency and the HSAs comply with the new requirements of this Act by September 30, 1983, to remain eligible for Federal funding. Reduces from five to three the number of authorized Centers for Health Planning.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates September 19 through September 25, 1982, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1982, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1982, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates September 19 through September 25, 1982, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Requires the notification of parents or guardians before a federally-funded program, project, or entity may provide contraceptive or abortion services to an unmarried minor.