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Bill· SS. 991 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Title I: National Health Services Manpower Act - Establishes the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for the purpose of obtaining physicians for the National Health Service Corps. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for participation in the Program. Provides that each eligible individual shall be entitled to the payment by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of a scholarship for each approved academic year of training (not to exceed four years). Sets forth the dollar amounts of such scholarships. Requires an individual participating in the Program to serve on active duty as a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service or as a civilian member of the National Health Service Corps following completion of academic training. Provides that such period of active duty shall be six months of service for each year of training received under the Program, with a minimum service time of 12 months. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the National Health Service Corps Trust Fund from which scholarships under this Act shall be paid. Authorizes appropriations for such fund. Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Health Service Corps to improve the delivery of health services to medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate the medically underserved populations in the States. Defines the term "medically underserved population" and enumerates the factors to be taken into account in making such designations, including: (1) ratios of available health manpower to the population; (2) indicators of the population's access to health services; and (3) indicators of health status and need of the population. Empowers the Secretary to assign Corps personnel to State health agencies, private health entities, local governments, and medical, dental or other appropriate health societies. Enumerates the requirements to be met prior to the making of any such assignments and for the continuing of expired assignments. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations to which are not assigned Corps personnel; (2) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (3) make grants, with specified limitations, for purposes of providing health services. States that the Secretary shall require as a condition to the approval of an application that the entity enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Secretary under which: (1) the entity shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the entity shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the entity shall pay to the United States specified, calculated amounts. Directs the Secretary to conduct, at schools of the health professions and allied health professions, recruiting programs for the Corps. Directs the Secretary to adjust the monthly rate of pay of each physician and dentist member of the Corps who is directly engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and specifies the content of such reports. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review and approve regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Sets forth the membership composition of the Council. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal years 1975-77 to carry out the establishment and functions of the National Health Service Corps and the Council. Establishes in the Public Health Service the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training. Sets forth the membership composition of the National Council. Provides that the National Council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians. Establishes a Regional Council on Postgraduate Physician Training for each of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare regions. Sets forth membership composition of such Councils. Provides that each regional council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians within the region served by the regional council. Provides that the National Council and each regional council shall annually certify postgraduate training positions in entities, and associations of such entities, which directly provide such training. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, and contract with, entities which directly provide, or have the capacity to provide directly, postgraduate training of physicians and which are certified to the Secretary by the National Council and a regional council as likely to receive an increased number of certified postgraduate positions subsequent to July 1, 1977, to allow such entities to develop new, and expand existing, postgraduate physician training programs. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1978-80 to carry out such program and make such grants. Directs the Secretary to contract for the conduct of a study to: (1) analyze the current and projected geographical distribution of physicians by specialty; and (2) examine, evaluate, and develop a reliable and appropriate methodology to establish the optimal distribution of physicians by specialty and by geographic area. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the conduct of such study. Authorizes the Secretary to make special project grants to schools, agencies, organizations and institutions for the improvement of health professions training. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such special project grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assist in projects for planning, developing, and operating area health education systems. Defines "area health education systems." Authorizes appropriations for the making of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary, between July 1, 1974 and June 30, 1977, to provide loan guarantees and interest subsidies to students obtaining loans from banking institutions to meet the cost of education expenses in pursuing an approved course of study leading to an undergraduate degree in nursing, pharmacy, or other allied health professions. Establishes in the United States Treasury a health service manpower loan guarantee fund to enable the Secretary to discharge his responsibilities with respect to loan guarantees and interest subsidies under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation to the fund of such amounts as may be required from time to time for the fund. Title II: Miscellaneous Repeals - Revises the Public Health Service Act by repealing the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, Traineeships for Professional Public Health Personnel, Project Grants for Graduate Training in Public Health, the National Health Service Corps, programs for Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel, and programs for Nurse Training.
Bill· SS. 996 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Comprehensive Health Professions Education Act - Title I: Loan Guarantees for Construction For Replacement Or Remodeling Of Teaching Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to assist eligible nonprofit private entities in carrying out approved projects for the construction of teaching facilities of private nonprofit schools of medicine, nursing, osteopathy, veterinary medicine, optometry, or podiatry, other than the construction of new buildings or the expansion of existing buildings, during the period beginning July 1, 1974, and ending with the close of September 30, 1977, by guaranteeing to any non-Federal lender that makes a loan to an eligible entity, for that project, payment when due of the principal of and interest on that loan. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such loan guarantees. Terminates loan guarantees for the construction of new teaching facilities and the expansion of existing teaching facilities. Terminates interest subsidy payments on such loan guarantees. Title II: Capitation Grants, Start-Up Assistance And National Priority Incentive Awards - Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, and veterinary medicine for the support of the education programs of those schools, for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Reduces the amount of such grants for each such fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for each such fiscal year. Limits start-up assistance grants to schools that have received a start-up grant for fiscal year 1974. Establishes a program of National Priority Incentive Awards to each school of medicine and osteopathy in an amount equal to $2,000 for each of its graduates who enters a residency in the practice of family medicine, and to award grants to pay part of the cost of planning, developing, and operating for an initial period, not to exceed three years, programs of graduate or specialized education or training in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, and other health care shortage fields. Title III: Special Projects, Health Manpower Education Incentive Awards, And Financial Distress Grants - Expands the health manpower special projects authority to include assistance presently authorized under existing comparable special project authority contained in the nursing, allied health, and public health professions portions of the Public Health Service Act. Consolidates the authorizations of appropriations for the special project grants for the health professions and the health professions Health Manpower Education Incentative Awards into a single provision of law. Authorizes appropriations for both programs for an additional three years. Authorizes appropriations for the health professions financial distress grant program for an additional three years. Makes schools of pharmacy ineligible for such grants. Limits the financial distress grant to any school for a fiscal year to 75 percent of the financial distress grant awarded for the previous fiscal year. Title IV: Student Assistance - Authorizes the payment to eligible disadvantaged individuals of stipends, with allowances for travel and for dependents, for post-secondary education or training required to qualify such individual for admission to a school providing health training, or to assist such individual in undergoing that training. Authorizes appropriations for the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to assign participants in the program to any civilian or uniformed Federal health service. Raises the interest rate on health professions and nursing student loans supported by the Federal Government from 3 to 7 percent. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date with respect to the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 992 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Services Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements of the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1976-1978 such purposes. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the Program $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years, are met. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1978. Title VI: Medical Residency Training Programs; Admission of Alien Doctors; Reports - Provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs. Provides for exclusion of alien doctors who have not met specified requirements of this Act as to certification and demonstrated competency in oral and written English, as well as other criteria.
Bill· HRH.R. 4474 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Treats the amounts paid for custodial care by institutions of dependents afflicted by Down's syndrome as amounts paid for medical care for purposes of deductibility from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code.
Bill· SS. 970 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Establishes a catastrophic health insurance program for the unemployed within the Social Security system. Requires an individual to have established entitlement to weekly benefits under a State or Federal unemployment compensation law in order to be eligible for benefits under this Act. Stipulates that every such individual, and such individual's dependent spouse and children, shall be entitled to hospital and medical insurance benefits if such individual is: (1) unemployed; (2) not entitled under any other provision of law to hospital insurance benefits; and (3) not the dependent spouse. Provides for grants to States equal to 100 percent of the costs and administration for the implementation of programs which supply health benefits to the unemployed. Sets forth the types of hospital and medical services eligible for coverage. Prescribes the portion of the cost of eligible services payable by the program. Creates within the Treasury of the United States a Federal Catastrophic Health Insurance Trust Fund for the Unemployed. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 of such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act. Creates a Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund, to be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Makes the Secretary of the Treasury the Managing Trustee of the Board. Sets forth the duties of the Board. Provides for the repeal of this Act effective three years after the date of enactment.
Bill· SS. 966 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Emergency Health Insurance Extension Act - Stipulates, under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974, that every individual who is receiving benefits under any Federal or State unemployment compensation law and who, at the time of termination of his employment, was covered under an employer health insurance plan for employees, and the members of his family if included in such coverage, shall be entitled to a continuation of such insurance. Directs the Secretary of Labor to pay the premiums for such insurance, under specified terms and conditions, until June 30, 1976. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4341 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Revises the conditions under which post-hospital home health services may be provided udner part A and home health services may be provided under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4340 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Home Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4302 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Home Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4303 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Revises the conditions under which post-hospital home health services may be provided udner part A and home health services may be provided under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4244 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Prohibits hospitals or other health services facilities which receive Federal support from compensating physicians and other persons for the referral of patients for treatment. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations enforcing the policy of this Act, including procedures for suspension of Federal support in the care of violations by hospitals.
Bill· HRH.R. 4237 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Authorizes appropriations of $16,000,000 for the National Health Service Corps for fiscal year 1975. Extends, within the Public Health Service, the National Health Service Corps to improve the delivery of health services to medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate the medically underserved populations in the States. Defines the term "medically underserved population" and enumerates the factors to be taken into account in making such designations, including: (1) ratios of available health manpower to the population; (2) indicators of the population's access to health services; and (3) indicators of health status and need of the population. Empowers the Secretary to assign Corps personnel to State health agencies, private health entities, local governments, and medical, dental or other appropriate health societies. Enumerates the requirements to be met prior to the making of any such assignments and for the continuing of expired assignments. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations which are not assigned Corps personnel. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (2) make grants up to $25,000 for purposes of providing health services, upon application of an appropriate health service entity. States that the Secretary shall require as a condition to the approval of an application that the entity enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Secretary under which: (1) the entity shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the entity shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the entity shall pay to the United States specified, calculated amounts. Directs the Secretary to conduct, at schools of the health professions and allied health professions, recruiting programs for the Corps. Provides for the Secretary to adjust the monthly rate of pay of each physician and dentist member of the Corps who is directly engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and specifies the content of such reports. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review and approve regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions relating to the Health Service Corps $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress the criteria used by him in designating a medically underserved populations, and the number of populations in each State meeting such criteria; and (2) conduct for studies of methods of assigning National Health Service Corps personnel to medically underserved populations and providing health care to such populations. Directs the Secretary to establish the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Programs to obtained trained physicians, dentists, nurses, or other health-related specialists for the National Health Service Corps of other units of the Service. Enumerates the eligibility requirements for participation in such program and the regulations governing program members. Provides that, to carry out such program, there is authorized to be appropriated $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.
Bill· HRH.R. 4114 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to reimburse applicants for positions in the National Health Service Corps for actual expenses incurred in traveling to and from their places of residence to an area in which they would be assigned for the purpose of evaluating such area with regard to being assigned in such area. Declares that commissioned officers and other personnel of the Corps assigned to provide health services for medically underserved populations shall not be included in determining whether any limitation on the number of personnel which may be employed by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has been exceeded. Sets forth pay adjustments for physicians and dentists serving in the Corps in medically underserved population areas. Defines the term "medically underserved population" to mean the population of an area having a critical health manpower shortage, as determined by the Secretary. Includes Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands as "States" under the Act. Directs the Secretary to take specified factors into consideration in designating medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary to require as a condition for the approval of an application for medical personnel under the Act that the applicant enter into an agreement which provides that: (1) the applicant shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the applicant shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the applicant shall pay to the United States specified calculated amounts. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations to which are not assigned Corps personnel; (2) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (3) make grants, with specified limitations, for purposes of providing health services. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Sets forth membership, terms of office, and rates of pay and allowances for such council. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the Corps.
Bill· HRH.R. 4115 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Nurse Training Act - Title I: One-Year Extension - Extends, under the Public Health Service Act, the authorization of appropriations for grants for construction of nursing schools, for loan guarantees and interest subsidies, and for capitation grants, until June 30, 1975. Title II: Revision and Extension of Programs through Fiscal Year 1978 - Authorizes the appropriation of $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978, for grants for construction of nursing schools. States that each collegiate school of nursing shall receive $00 for each student enrolled in each of the last two years of such school. Provides capitation grants for other schools of nursing. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for capitation grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist public or nonprofit private schools of nursing which are in serious financial straits to meet operational costs required to maintain quality educational programs or which have special need for financial assistance to meet accreditation requirements. Prescribes the procedures for the making of such grants. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for such grants. Empowers the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing and other entities to meet the costs of special projects, including: (1) to increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged students; (2) to provide continuing education for nursing; and (3) to increase the supply or distribution by geographic area or by specialty of adequately trained nursing personnel needed to meet the health needs of the nation, including the need to increase the availability of personal health services and the need to promote preventive health care. Authorizes the appropriation of $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978, for such grants. Authorizes the making of grants by the Secretary for: (1) advance nurse training programs; and (2) nurse practioner programs. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, for such grants. Authorizes to be appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to provide for the training of nurses to teach and to serve as nurse practioners. Authorizes appropriations of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, for Federal allotments to student nurse loan funds. Extends the student nurse scholarship program through 1978. Title III: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Public Health Service Act. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to determine on a continuing basis the current and projected supply of the various classifications of nurses, their geographic distribution, pay rates, activity status, and advanced training status. Requires a report annually to the Congress upon such findings together with recommendations for legislation.
Bill· HRH.R. 4238 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Nurse Training Act - Provides for appropriations authorizations in the areas of construction assistance under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes assistance under such Act in the expanding of the capacities of nursing schools to provide graduate training. Extends the Financial Distress Grant Program under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist public or nonprofit private schools of nursing which are in serious financial straits to meet operational costs required to maintain quality educational programs or which have special need for financial assistance to meet accreditation requirements. Provides that any such grant may be made upon such terms as the Secretary determines to be reasonable and necessary, including requirements that the school agree: (1) to disclose any financial information or data deemed by the Secretary to be necessary to determine the sources or causes of that school's financial distress; (2) to conduct a comprehensive cost analysis study in cooperation with the Secretary; and (3) to carry out appropriate operational and financial reforms on the basis of information obtained in the course of the comprehensive cost analysis study or on the basis of other relevant information. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training in acting upon applications for grants under this title. Authorizes appropriations for such grants of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $5,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to meet the costs of advanced nurse training programs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Extends the Student Loan Program under the Act. Directs the Secretary to determine on a continuing basis: (1) the supply of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and registered nurses with advanced training or graduate degrees, as well as other nursing personnel; (2) their distribution, and (3) the current and future requirements for such nurses.
Bill· HRH.R. 4236 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Technical Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds to authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements of the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1977 for carrying out this section. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the Program $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years, are met. Authorizes to be appropriated $165,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $170,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $167,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, for payments for grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry based on the number of full-time students enrolled in such schools. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for making of special grants and contracts for the purpose of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes to be appropriated for such purposes $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for projects for area health education centers for the purpose of improving the distribution, supply, quality, utilization, and efficiency of health personnel in the health services delivery system and for the purpose of encouraging the regionalization of educational responsibilities of the health professions schools. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000, $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively, for the establishment of such health education centers. Allows the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry in order to meet the cost of specified projects. Authorizes to be appropriated for such purpose $5,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively. Declares that the Secretary may make grants to schools of medicine and osteopathy in the United States to plan, develop, and operate programs: (1) to train U.S. citizens who have been enrolled in medical schools in foreign countries before July 1, 1975, to enable them to meet the requirements for enrolling in schools of medicine or osteopathy in the United States as full-time students with advanced standing; or (2) to train U.S. citizens who have transferred from medical schools in foreign countries in which they were enrolled before July 1, 1975, and who have enrolled in schools of medicine or osteopathy in the United States as full-time students with advanced standing. Authorizes to be appropriated for such purpose $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Permits the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine and osteopathy to meet the costs of projects to establish and maintain academic administrative units to provide clinical instruction in family medicine, and authorizes to be appropriated for such purpose $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Title VI: Public and Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for public and community health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977. Title VII: Medical Residency Training Programs - provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs with the number of first year positions not to exceed 125 percent of the estimated number of graduates from accredited schools of medicine in the preceding calendar year. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to contract for a study analyzing the current distribution of physicians by specialty, projecting such analysis for 1980, 1985, and 1990, and examining and developing a method for establishing the optimal distribution of physicians by geographic area. Requires the Secretary to make specified quality assurances to the Congress regarding education and training of allied health personnel. Calls for an allied health personnel study, detailing the contents of such study, including identification of classifications in which there are critical shortages of personnel.
Bill· HRH.R. 4229 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to the States and local government units to assist them in meeting the increased costs of providing health care to individuals who have problems resulting from the need to reduce heat to conserve energy.
Bill· HRH.R. 4235 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act - Title I: Health Revenue Sharing - Special Health Revenue Sharing Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State health and mental health authorities to assist in meeting the cost of providing comprehensive public health services under State plans approved under this Act. Sets forth the required elements of the content of such State plans. Authorizes the appropriation of $160,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $160,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to make grants pursuant to this title. Title II: Family Planning Programs - Family Planning and Population Research Act - Authorizes appropriations for the family planning and population research programs of the Public Health Service Act for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private entities for, projects for research in the biomedical, contraceptive development, behavioral, and program implementation fields related to family planning and population. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 to carry out such research. Sets forth reporting requirements for the Secretary to Congress. Title III: Community Mental Health Centers - Community Mental Health Centers Amendments - Presents the finding of the Congress that: (1) community mental health care is the most effective and humane form of care for a majority of mentally ill individuals; and (2) federally funded community mental health centers have had a major impact on the improvement of mental health care by fostering coordination and cooperation between various agencies responsible for mental health care which in turn has resulted in a decrease in overlapping services and more efficient utilization of available resources. Provides that the comprehensive mental health services which shall be provided through a community mental health center under the Community Mental Health Centers Act shall include: (1) services for individuals who are inpatients in a hospital or other health services delivery facility, outpatient services, day care and similar partial hospitalization services, and emergency services, (2) detoxification and referral services for the treatment of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and other drug abuse and drug dependence problems (including narcotic addition); (3) consultation and education services for health professionals, schools, State and local law enforcement and correctional agencies, public welfare agencies, health services delivery agencies, and other appropriate entities; (4) assistance to courts and other public agencies in screening residents of the center's catchment area who are being considered for referral to a State mental health facility for treatment to determine if they should be so referred and provision, where appropriate, of treatment for such persons through the center as an alternative to treatment at such facility; and (5) provision of follow-up care for residents of its catchment area who have been discharged from a State mental health facility. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to carry out projects to develop community mental health center programs. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private community mental health centers to assist them in meeting their costs of operation during the first five years after their establishment. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to any community mental health center for the costs of providing consultation and education services under this Act. Sets forth criteria for such grants. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Sets forth general regulations governing grants made under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the operation of community mental health centers which are under financial distress. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such grants. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Directs the Secretary to pay the Federal share of projects for the acquisition, leasing, and construction of community mental health centers, and for the acquisition of initial equipment for such facilities. Defines "Federal share" with respect to such projects. Sets forth the procedures for approval of, payment of grants to, and allocation of funds for, projects under this title. Establishes within the National Institute of Mental Health the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out through such Center a study of specified issues involving rape; and to assist qualified public and nonprofit private entities in conducting research concerning the control and prevention of rape. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to support such study and research. Defines the terms used in this title. Sets forth general regulations with respect to the administration of this title. Title IV: Migrant Health - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in the establishment, initial operation, and continued operation of migrant health centers serving high impact areas. Defines "migrant health center" as an entity which provides health services to agricultural migratory workers and their families. Defines the terms used in this title. Sets forth health services to be supplied by migrant health centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public and private entities, in areas in which no migrant health centers exist and which are not high impact areas, to provide health care to agricultural workers and their families. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of: (1) the quality of housing which is available to agricultural migratory workers in the United States while away from their permanent abodes; (2) the effect on the health of migrant workers of deficiencies in such housing; and (3) Federal, State, and local government standards respecting housing conditions for such workers during such period. Sets forth the reporting requirements for the Secretary for such study. Title V: Community Health Centers - Defines the term "community health center" as meaning under the Public Health Service Act an entity which provides primary health services and referral to providers of supplemental health services for all residents of the area it serves, and is organized in the manner prescribed under this Act. Requires the services of a community health center to be provided directly through its staff and supporting resources or through contracts or cooperative arrangements with public or private entities. Requires primary health services to be available and accessible in the area served by the center promptly, as appropriate, and in a manner which assures continuity. Provides that the governing body of a community health center shall have at least a majority of its members selected in a democratic manner by the persons receiving services from the center, shall meet at least once a month, shall establish general policies for the center, shall approve the center's annual budget, and shall approve the selection of a director for the center. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in (1) the establishment and initial operation of community health centers which will service a medically underserved population; and (2) meeting the cost of the continued operation of such centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $220,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $260,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, for grants under this title. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Authorizes to be appropriated $38,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for the study of specified diseases including those borne by rodents. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for home health services as defined in the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Committee on Mental Health and Illness of the Elderly. Directs the Secretary to establish a temporary commission to be known as the Commission for the Control of Epilepsy and Its Consequences. Directs the Secretary to establish a temporary commission to be known as the Commission for the Control of Huntington's Disease and Its Consequences. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for projects for the establishment of comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic and treatment centers. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for projects to develop and expand existing blood separation centers. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.
Bill· HRH.R. 4189 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Increases the excise tax under the Internal Revenue Code on small and large cigarettes, providing that such increased taxes collected after June 30, 1976, shall be appropriated to the National Cancer Research Fund established by this Act in the Treasury in specified amounts for fiscal years 1977 and 1978.
Bill· HRH.R. 4185 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
National Commission on Epilepsy and Its Consequences Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Commission to determine the most effective means of finding the cause and cures and treatments for epilepsy. Directs that such Commission shall develop a national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences. Provides for the membership of such Commission. Sets forth the duties of such Commission. Requires that it shall be a duty of the Commission to develop a comprehensive national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences based on the most thorough, complete, and accurate data available on the disorder. Requires the Commission to make recommendations concerning the proper roles of the Federal and State governments, and the national and local public and private agencies in research, prevention, identification and rehabilitation of persons with epilepsy. Requires the transmittal to the President and to the Congress of a final report under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4188 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 4190 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Increases the excise tax under the Internal Revenue Code on small and large cigarettes, providing that such increased taxes collected after June 30, 1976, shall be appropriated to the National Cancer Research Fund established by this Act in the Treasury in specified amounts for fiscal years 1977 and 1978.
Bill· HRH.R. 4174 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Provides that specified rural hospitals shall be exempt for a period of 18 months from the requirements and provisions of Title XI of the Social Security Act relating to the establishment of professional standards review organizations and from the provisions of such Act and the regulations governing utilization review and utilization control procedures under the medicare, medicaid, and maternal and child health programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to investigate alternative methods of utilization review and control for rural hospitals. Defines "rural hospitals" for purposes of this Act as meaning a hospital which is located in a community having a population of less than 50,000, but only if: (1) there is no other is no other community which has a population of fifty thousand or more within a ten-mile radius of such hospital; (2) the combined average patient load for all hospitals within such ten-mile radius is less than forty per day; and (3) the number of practicing physicians on the regular staff of such hospital does not exceed seven.
Bill· HRH.R. 4140 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
Bill· HRH.R. 4129 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 4121 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Requires States to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under which the State will agree to periodically inspect public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities. Provides that eligibility for Federal payments under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act is contingent upon such an inspection program. Directs States to impose a fine of up to $300 for willful refusal to permit any inspection required by this Act. Requires States to enforce specified guarantees of rights of patients in public and private extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, and intermediate care facilities, including a guarantee of the patients' right to receive adequate, high quality, and appropriate medical care.
Bill· HRH.R. 4139 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
National Commission on Epilepsy and Its Consequences Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Commission to determine the most effective means of finding the cause and cures and treatments for epilepsy. Directs that such Commission shall develop a national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences. Provides for the membership of such Commission. Sets forth the duties of such Commission. Requires that it shall be a duty of the Commission to develop a comprehensive national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences based on the most thorough, complete, and accurate data available on the disorder. Requires the Commission to make recommendations concerning the proper roles of the Federal and State governments, and the national and local public and private agencies in research, prevention, identification and rehabilitation of persons with epilepsy. Requires the transmittal to the President and to the Congress of a final report under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4135 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Imposes increased taxes, under the Internal Revenue Code, on cigarettes of $0.50 more per thousand on small cigarettes and $1.05 more per thousand on large cigarettes, the proceeds, coupled with additional appropriations authorizations, to be used in part for programs respecting lung and blood diseases.
Bill· SS. 915 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Public Health Service Act, to recruit, employ and assign up to 551 professionals as members of the National Health Service Corps for fiscal year 1975.
Bill· HRH.R. 4100 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Permits the full deduction under the Internal Revenue Code of medical expenses incurred for the care of individuals 65 years of age and over.
Bill· HRH.R. 4092 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
National Comprehensive Vision Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make annual grants to the States for the costs of establishing and operating programs under which students in public schools: (1) will receive free vision test; and (2) will be provided, without charge, appropriate necessary follow up services (including opthalmologic and optometric services and eyeglasses). Authorizes such grants to be used to train personnel to administer such tests. Directs the Secretary to establish a panel to advise him with respect to the standards to be prescribed by him under this Act for qualified vision tests. States that such panel shall be composed of four ophthalmologists and four optometrists who by virtue of their training and experience are especially qualified to advise the Secretary with respect to such standards. Requires the Secretary to make an annual report to the Congress respecting the grant program authorized under this Act and to include in such report his recommendations for such legislation as he deems appropriate.
Bill· HRH.R. 4095 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Establishes in the Public Health Service the National Sickle Cell Anemia Institute. Provides that the Institute shall: (1) conduct and support research on sickle cell anemia; (2) provide training and establish fellowships in matters relating to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this disease; (3) provide for nationwide screening programs to determine the incidence of sickle cell anemia and its traits among school age children; (4) conduct and support counseling and education programs to make the public aware of the services available with respect to sickle cell anemia; and (5) assist the Secretary of Defense in screening all persons entering the armed forces for sickle cell anemia and its traits. Establishes an advisory council to assist the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in matters relating to the institute. Provides that this council will assume the responsibilities of the National Advisory Health Council on matters relating to sickle cell anemia.
Bill· HRH.R. 3980 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Provides for the coverage of clinical psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3894 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to nonprofit private entities: (1) for specified research and development projects designed to improve systems and delivery of health care for persons who are critically ill; (2) to support biomedical engineering projects for testing new instrumentation and systems for delivery of critical health care; and (3) for the establishment and initial operation of not more than ten critical care facilities for the delivery of health care to critically ill patients, which facilities would be sued for clinical testing of new instrumentation and health care delivery systems and to train personnel in the use of such instrumentation and systems. Specifies condition for such grants. Authorizes to be appropriatied $20,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3939 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay the health insurance premiums of unemployed individuals entitled to weekly benefits under a State or Federal unemployment compensation law, if such individual had health insurance at the time he became eligible for unemployment benefits. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out the Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3834 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Provides hospital insurance coverage, for a one year period, under Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for unemployed workers and their families. Requires as a condition of eligibility that unemployed individuals establish entitlement to weekly benefits under a State or Federal unemployment compensation law. Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund of an amount sufficient to place such Trust Fund in the same position at the end of one fiscal year as the position it would have been in if the provisions of this Act had not been enacted.
Bill· HRH.R. 3895 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
National Commission on Health Science and Society Act - Establishes a National Commission on Health Science and Society composed of fifteen members to be appointed by the President from among the fields of medicine, public health, mental health, law, theology, biological science, physical science, social science, philosophy, humanities, health administration, government, and public affairs, and from the public at large. Provides that the Commission shall undertake a comprehensive investigation and study of the ethical, social, and legal implications of advances in biomedical research and technology, which shall include, without being limited to: (1) analysis and evaluation of scientific and technological advances in the biomedical sciences, current and projected; (2) analysis and evaluation of the implications of such advances, both for individuals and for society; (3) analysis and evaluation through the use of seminars and public hearings, and other appropriate means, of public understanding of and attitudes toward such implications; (4) analysis and evaluation of implications for public policy of such findings as are made with respect to the biomedical advances and public attitudes; (5) analysis and evaluation of scientific and technological advances in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, current and projected; (6) analysis and evaluation of the use of human subjects for purposes of experimentation or research; and (7) analysis and evaluation of the availability of health services to all segments of the population with particular emphasis on the health service needs of low-income segments of the population. Directs the Commission to transmit to the President and to the Congress one or more interim reports and, not later than two years after the first meeting of the Commission, one final report, containing detailed statements of the findings and conclusions of the Commission, together with its recommendations, including such recommendations for action by public and private bodies and individuals as it deems advisable. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,000,000 for the following fiscal year. Terminates the Commission 90 days after the submission of its final report to the President and Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 3835 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Provides hospital insurance coverage, for a one year period, under Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for unemployed workers and their families. Requires as a condition of eligibility that unemployed individuals establish entitlement to weekly benefits under a State or Federal unemployment compensation law. Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund of an amount sufficient to place such Trust Fund in the same position at the end of one fiscal year as the position it would have been in if the provisions of this Act had not been enacted.
Bill· SS. 862 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) and title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that qualified drugs requiring a physicians prescription or certification shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged at a specified amount of payment. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligation which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provisions for selecting drugs for the Formulary. Increases the rate of hospital insurance tax on self employment income and on employers and employees.
Bill· SS. 843 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides that specified rural hospitals shall be exempt for a period of 18 months from the requirements and provisions of Title XI of the Social Security Act relating to the establishment of professional standards review organizations and from the provisions of such Act and the regulations governing utilization review and utilization control procedures under the medicare, medicaid, and maternal and child health programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to investigate alternative methods of utilization review and control for rural hospitals. Defines "rural hospitals" for purposes of this Act as meaning a hospital which is located in a community having a population of less than 50,000, but only if: (1) there is no other is no other community which has a population of fifty thousand or more within a ten-mile radius of such hospital; (2) the combined average patient load for all hospitals within such ten-mile radius is less than forty per day; and (3) the number of practicing physicians on the regular staff of such hospital does not exceed seven.
Bill· HRH.R. 3782 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Revises the provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for optometrists' services and eyeglasses.
Bill· HRH.R. 3764 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3766 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3765 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3767 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3672 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
National Family Health Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and administer the national family health protection program. Requires such program to provide every individual with the means of obtaining a basic health protection policy from a qualified company of his choice, in order to provide comprehensive health protection for himself and his family. Requires the Secretary to issue to each head of a family a certificate each year enabling him to purchase such a policy. Makes provisions in the income tax return for applying for such certificate. Requires such a policy to cover the reasonable cost of: inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, extended care services, post-hospital extended care services, home health services, post-hospital home health services, medical care and other health services, and physician's services. Includes in the definition of such services the necessary drugs, supplies, x-ray and laboratory tests, and ambulance services. Sets forth stipulations for determining and adjusting the reasonable costs of such services. Prohibits payment under such a policy for items or services: which are not reasonable and necessary for diagnosis and treatment; which are paid for directly or indirectly by a governmental entity; which are not provided in the United States; which are for routine physical checkups; which are for custodial care; and which are for normal dental care. Limits full payment of hospital bed and board to 120 days, 80 percent during the next 120 days and 50 percent thereafter. Limits payments for home or office physician's visits to $5 per visit to the extent such visits exceed $50 per year. Defines a qualified insurance company. Provides that such companies may redeem an individual's health certificate by presenting them to the Secretary. Provides for the assignment of high risk families among such companies. Establishes the Health Protection Reserve Fund to make payments under this Act when an insurance company is unable to make such payments. Requires the insurance companies to make payments to the fund. Repeals the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act. Imposes a tax equal to 5 percent of a person's adjusted income tax in order to cover the costs of this program. Authorizes additional appropriations from time to time equal to such tax, as may be needed to cover the costs of such program. National Family Health Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and administer the national family health protection program. Requires such program to provide every individual with the means of obtaining a basic health protection policy from a qualified company of his choice, in order to provide comprehensive health protection for himself and his family. Requires the Secretary to issue to each head of a family a certificate each year enabling him to purchase such a policy. Makes provisions in the income tax return for applying for such certificate. Requires such a policy to cover the reasonable cost of: inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, extended care services, post-hospital extended care services, home health services, post-hospital home health services, medical care and other health services, and physician's services. Includes in the definition of such services the necessary drugs, supplies, x-ray and laboratory tests, and ambulance services. Sets forth stipulations for determining and adjusting the reasonable costs of such services. Prohibits payment under such a policy for items or services: which are not reasonable and necessary for diagnosis and treatment; which are paid for directly or indirectly by a governmental entity; which are not provided in the United States; which are for routine physical checkups; which are for custodial care; and which are for normal dental care. Limits full payment of hospital bed and board to 120 days, 80 percent during the next 120 days and 50 percent thereafter. Limits payments for home or office physician's visits to $5 per visit to the extent such visits exceed $50 per year. Defines a qualified insurance company. Provides that such companies may redeem an individual's health certificate by presenting them to the Secretary. Provides for the assignment of high risk families among such companies. Establishes the Health Protection Reserve Fund to make payments under this Act when an insurance company is unable to make such payments. Requires the insurance companies to make payments to the fund. Repeals the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act. Imposes a tax equal to 5 percent of a person's adjusted income tax in order to cover the costs of this program. Authorizes additional appropriations from time to time equal to such tax, as may be needed to cover the costs of such program.
Bill· HRH.R. 3674 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Provides that every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) will be eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy-in" agreements for groups or non- resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Health Security Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Provides that all necessary professional services of physicians, wherever furnished, are covered, including preventive care, with one restriction: mental health services to an outpatient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitative service with respect to emotional or mental disorders. Provides that comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontic services) are covered for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered. States that inpatient and outpatient hospital services, nursing home services, and services of a home health agency are covered, subject to specified limitations. Includes pathology and radiology services as parts of institutional services. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days during a benefit period. Limits the psychiatric hospital benefit to 45 inpatient days. Provides covereage for prescribed drugs furnished to individuals enrolled in group practice organizations or to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requires the Board to establish two lists of approved drugs, taking into account the safety, efficacy and cost of each drug. Directs the Board to establish lists of therapeutic devices, appliances, and equipment which are eligible to be covered when prescribed by a participating physician or dentist. Asserts that the professional services of optometrists and podiatrists are covered, subject to regulations, as are diagnostic or therapeutic services furnished by independent pathology laboratories and radiology services. Provides covereage for care of patients in mental health day care service for not more than sixty days during or following a benefit period, for the active treatment of individuals diagnosed as needing treatment for alcoholism or drug abuse, and for family planning and rehabilitation services. States that health services furnished or paid for under a workmen's compensation law are not covered. Provides that the services of a professional practitioner are not covered if they are furnished in a hospital which is not a participating provider. Requires that participating providers meet standards established in this title or by the Board. Requires that such providers must agree to provide services without discrimination, to make no unauthorized charge to the patient for any covered service, and to furnish data necessary for utilization review by professional peers, statistical studies by the Board, and verification of information for payments. Makes professional practitioners licensed when the program begins eligible to practice in the State where they are licensed and requires that all newly licensed applicants for participation meet national standards established by the Board in additional to those required by his State. Establishes conditions of participation for general hospitals and for mental hospitals. Provides that mental hospitals will be eligible to participate only if the Board finds that the hospital (or a distinct part of the hospital) is engaged in furnishing active diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services to mentally ill patients. Establishes conditions of participation for skilled nursing homes. Requires such homes to be primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing care and related to services to inpatients, and to have written policies governing the services provided. Makes provision for the participation of home health services agencies. Describes as eligible a group practice organization which undertakes to provide an enrolled population with complete health services (other than mental health or dental services) and meets specified qualifying conditions. Lists other health service organizations eligible for qualification as providers under this Act. Specifies the conditions under which independent pathology laboratories, independent radiological services, and providers of drugs, devices, appliances, equipment, or ambulance services may qualify as providers under Health Security. Requires that a participating skilled nursing home have in effect an agreement with at least one participating hospital for the transfer of patients and medical and other information as medically appropriate. Prohibits in malpractice judgments any damages to be awarded to the injured party for the cost of remedial services which he is entitled to receive under this Act. Excludes the institutions of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, and institutions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare serving merchant seamen or Indians or Alaskan natives, from serving as participating providers, as well as any employee of these institutions when he is acting as an employee. Provides reimbursement for any services furnished by these institutions or agencies to eligible persons who are not a part of their normal clientele. Permits a physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, or psychologist licensed in one State and meeting the national standards, to furnish Health Security benefits in any other State, the scope of his permissible practice being governed by the law of the State in which he is practicing. Establishes the Health Security Trust Fund. Provides that four separate accounts shall be established in the Health Security Trust Fund: a health services account, a health resources development account, and administration account, and a general account. Provides that in each of the first two years of program operation, 2 percent of the general account of Trust Fund shall be set aside for the health resources development account; and the allocation shall increase by 1 percent at two-year intervals to 5 percent within the next six years. Provides for allocation of the Health Services account among the regions of the country. Provides that the allocations to each region shall be based on the most recent 12-month period for covered services (with appropriate modification for estimated changes in the cost of living, the expected number of eligible beneficiaries, and estimated changes in the number of participating providers). Provides that the Board shall divide the allocation to each region into funds available to pay: institutional services; physician services; dental services; furnishing of drugs; furnishing of devices, appliances, equipment; and miscellaneous services. Provides that payments for covered services provided to eligible persons by participating providers will be made from the health service account in the Trust Fund. Describes the method to be used in applying, as between practitioners electing the various methods of payment (fee-for-service and capitation), the monies available in each health service area for payment to each category of professional providers. Authorizes the Board to experiment with other methods of reimbursement so long as the experimental method does not increase the cost of service or lead to overutilization or underutilization of services. Provides that skilled nursing homes and home health agencies will will be paid in the same manner as a general hospital (on an approved annual budget basis). Provides that a health organization will be paid for covered services, on the basis of a fixed capitation rate multiplied by the number of eligible enrollees. Contains a series of provisions for developing a continuous process of health service planning and for assisting in the recruitment, education, and training of health personnel. Authorizes grants: (1) to any public or nonprofit agency or organization, and (2) to any existing group practice organization or other health service organization to assist in expanding the scope of health maintenance organization services and to enable such organizations to service a larger clientale. Authorizes special improvement grants: (1) to any public or other non- profit health agency or institution to establish improved coordination and linkages with other providers of services, and (2) to organizations providing comprehensive ambulatory care, to improve their utilization review, budget, statistical, or records and information retrieval systems, to acquire equipment needed for those purposes, or to acquire equipment for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Requires the Board to transmit to the Congress within three years a comprehensive report, together with recommendations for improved methods of personal care services in communities lacking such programs, and recommendations for the continuing financial support of such services. Authorizes appropriations to the Trust Fund for grants of $200,000,000 for the first fiscal year of program operation and $400,000,000 for the succeeding fiscal year. Establishes a five-member, full-time Health Security Board serving under the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that the members shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, for five-year overlapping terms. Creates the position of an Executive Director, appointed by the Board with the approval of the Secretary. Provides that the Executive Director will serve as secretary to the Board and shall perform such duties in the administration of the program as the Board may assign. Provides that the program will be administered through the regional offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires the establishment of local health service offices. Establishes a National Health Security Advisory Council, with the Chairman of the Board serving as the Council's Chairman and 20 additional members not in the employ of the Federal Government. Authorizes the Advisory Council to appoint professional or technical committees to assist in its functions. Provides that the Advisory Council will advise the Board on matters of general policy in the administration of the program, the formulation of regulations, and the performance of the Board's program. Charges the Board with responsibility for informing the public and providers about the administration and operation of the Health Security program. Requires the Board to make a continuing study and evaluation of the program, including adequacy, quality and costs of services. Authorizes the Board directly or by contract to make detailed statistical and other studies on a national, regional, or local basis of any aspect of the title; to develop and test records and information retrieval systems, equipment useful in the furnishing of preventive or diagnostic services, and model systems for use by providers of services; to develop improved administrative practices; and to make such other studies as it may consider necessary to improve the operation of the program. Directs the Board to issue guidelines for health manpower education and training designed to relate the clinical education conducted by providers of services more closely to the relative need for the different classes of such personnel. Grants authority to the Board, in accordance with regulations, to make determinations of who are participating providers of services, determinations of eligibility, of whether services are covered, and the amount to be paid to providers. Allows a provider of services who is dissatisfied with a final Board determination to obtain a hearing before a Board panel, and judicial review of a final decision. Authorizes the Board, with the advice and assistance of the Commission on the Quality of Health Care, to issue and review regulations assuring the quality of care furnished under this Act. Requires continuing professional education by physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, and psychologists. Provides for the appointment of a Deputy Secretary of HEW and an Under Secretary for Health and Science. States that no provision of this Act shall alter any contractual obligation of an employer to provide health services to his employees and their dependents. Title II: Health Security Taxes - Converts the existing Medicare hospital insurance payroll taxes into Health Security taxes, and raises the rates to 1 percent on employees and 3.5 percent on employers. Broadens the definitions of covered employment to include foreign agricultural workers, employees of the U.S. and its instrumentalities (other than members of the armed forces and the President, Vice-President, and Members of Congress), employees of charitable and similar organizations, railroad employees, and (for the employee tax only) employees of States and their political subdivisions. Excludes from the gross income of employees, for income tax purposes, payment by their employers of part or all of the Health Security taxes on the employees. Spells out the precise effective dates of the new payroll tax provisions. Converts the existing Medicare self-employment tax into a Health Security self-employment tax, raising the rate to 2.5 percent. Imposes a 2.5 percent Health Security tax on unearned income, unless such income is less than $400 per year. Title III: Commissionon the Quality of Health Care - Establishes in the Department of HEW a Commission on the Quality of Health Care, with the primary responsibility of: (1) initiating and continuing development of methods of assessing the quality of health care furnished under the Health Security Act, and (2) submitting to the Secretary and the Health Security Board its findings and recommendations. Stipulates that in carrying out its duties the Commissioner shall emphasize, and give first consideration to, care furnished for those illnesses and conditions which have relatively high incidence in the population and which are relatively amenable to medical or other care. Title IV: Repeal or Amendment of Other Acts - Repeals Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and the Federal employee health benefit statutes. Requires that after the effective date of benefits, no State shall be required to furnish any service covered under Health Security as a part of its State plan for participation under Medicaid. Title V: Studies Related to Health Security - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Treasury to study the coverage of health services for U.S. residents in other countries. Directs the Secretary of HEW to study the feasibility and desirability of coordinating the Federal health benefit programs for merchant seamen and Indians and Alaskan natives and also veterans and members of the Armed Forces, with the Health Security Benefit Program. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out such studies.
Bill· HRH.R. 3632 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Imposes increased taxes, under the Internal Revenue Code, on cigarettes of $0.50 more per thousand on small cigarettes and $1.05 more per thousand on large cigarettes, the proceeds, coupled with additional appropriations authorizations, to be used in part for programs respecting lung and blood diseases.
Bill· HRH.R. 3663 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Designates the Miners' Hospital in Raton, New Mexico, as a Public Health Service hospital, to be known as the "Miners' Rehabilitation and Medical Hospital," and to be controlled, managed, and operated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that any person who is or has been engaged in the removal of ores, precious stones, or other materials from pits or excavations, and whose disease, injury, or disability was incurred while so engaged or is related thereto, shall be entitled to receive care and hospitalization on a priority basis without charge at the Miners' Hospital. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 809 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a research program with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of histoplasmosis and ocular histoplasmosis. Authorizes, for fiscal years 1976-1978, specified sums to be appropriated for the research programs and for conducting training programs.
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