Healthcare

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide medicare coverage of personal emergency response services.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of "personal emergency response services" provided by a "personal emergency monitoring agency." Defines "personal emergency response services" as the maintenance of digital electronic communication equipment in the home which signals a "personal emergency monitoring agency" for help.

A bill to amend section 431 of the Public Health Service Act to provide funds to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke for research in the area of regeneration of the spinal cord.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to provide that the institute currently authorized to conduct research on neurological diseases shall be named the "National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke." Requires obligation of at least $16,000,000 of the sums appropriated for such Institute for research in the area of regeneration of the spinal cord.

A bill to direct that a clinical investigation of the safety and efficacy of dimethyl sulfoxide as a drug to be used by persons with arthritis be conducted through the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, to: (1) conduct a clinical investigation of the safety and efficacy of dimethyl sulfoxide as a drug to be used by persons with arthritis; and (2) report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act.

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to impose certain requirements relating to the discharge or transfer of medicaid patients from skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that States include standards for determining need for continued skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities in their plan for medical assistance. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct investigative and oversight activities designed to determine whether there exists any basis to support a finding that the plan no longer complies with minimum requirements. States that an individual shall be deemed to be in need of skilled nursing facility services if determined to need care in such a facility on a daily basis.

A joint resolution designating the month of September 1981, as "National Rehabilitation Month".

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Requests the President to designate the month of September, 1981, as "National Rehabilitation Month."

A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim the second week in April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week".

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1981

Requests the President to designate the second week of April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week."

A bill to establish an office in the National Institutes of Health to assist in the development of drugs for diseases and conditions of low incidence.

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981

Establishes within the National Institutes of Health the Office of Drugs of Limited Commercial Value under the direction of the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Establishes within the Office an advisory council to advise the Director and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services respecting the time required for drug approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Authorizes the Director to provide financial assistance to entities for the development of drugs of limited commercial value, defined as a drug for a condition or disease of low incidence, to undertake the development of such drugs, undertake studies to determine the potential and need for specific drugs, and coordinate the efforts of public and private entities engaged in the development of such drugs. Requires the submission and approval of an application containing the scientific basis for the development and the proposed therapeutic use of the drug and other specified information before financial assistance is provided. Requires each entity receiving funds to keep specified records. Requires the Director to report to Congress within two years on the effectiveness of this Act.

A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations requiring certain modes of public transportation in interstate commerce to reserve some seating capacity for passengers who do not smoke.

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1981

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe rules and regulations requiring certain air carriers, railroads, and motor carriers carrying passengers for hire in interstate commerce to set aside areas for the exclusive use of nonsmokers.

Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Needs Study Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981

Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Needs Study Act - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to direct the Department of Education's National Institute for Handicapped Research to conduct a study of the mental and physical rehabilitation needs of the Pacific Basin. Requires a report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act.

Youth Camp Safety Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981

Youth Camp Safety Act - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services an Office of Youth Camp Safety to be headed by a Director of Youth Camp Safety. Confers upon the Director the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of Federal and State youth camp safety regulations. Provides for Congressional disapproval of such proposed regulations. Requires any State which desires to assume responsibility for the development and modification of youth camp safety standards to submit a State plan to the Director for approval. Allows a State whose plan has been rejected to obtain review of the decision in the United States court of appeals. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States for the development of youth camp safety plans, such grants not to exceed 80 percent of the cost of carrying out the State plan. Authorizes the Director to enter and inspect youth camps and their records. Charges the Director with: (1) establishing within the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety; and (2) reporting to the Congress and the President annually. Establishes judicial procedures to restrain any condition or practice which poses an imminent danger of serious injury at such camps. Prescribes penalties for violations by youth camp operators of the standards promulgated pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of certain psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by part B of such title.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment for certain clinical psychologists' services under the supplemental medical insurance program.

A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim September 8 of each year as National Cancer Prevention Day.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1981

Requests the President to designate September 8 of each year as "National Cancer Prevention Day."

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to emergency inpatient hospital services furnished outside the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize payment to an individual entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act for emergency inpatient hospital services furnished outside the United States if such hospital was closer to, or substantially more accessible than, the place at which the emergency occurred than the nearest adequately equipped hospital within the United States.

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States to terminate eligibility for medicaid medical assistance for up to one year for individuals determined to have abused the Medicaid program.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit a State to terminate an individual's benefits for up to one year after notice and opportunity for hearing, if it is determined, by a preponderance of the evidence, that such individual has committed specified Medicaid abuses.

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit State medicaid programs to require nominal copayments for basic services provided to categorically needy individuals.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal the provision under which a State is prohibited from charging an enrollment fee, premium, or deduction for inpatient hospital services, outpatient services, laboratory and X-ray services, skilled nursing facility services, certain physicians' services, and home health services to an individual who is eligible for Medicaid and who is receiving aid or assistance under titles I (Old Age and Medical Assistance), X (Aid to the Blind), XIV (Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled), XVI (Supplemental Security Income), or IV part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of such Act. Directs that any charge for any Medicaid benefit provided to any such individual shall be nominal.

A bill to permit relatives of Medicaid eligible individuals residing in nursing homes to contribute voluntarily to a State fund for the provision of such care.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit a State to establish a program under which relatives of a Medicaid beneficiary receiving skilled nursing facility services or intermediate care facility services may contribute to a fund used to provide such services.

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow States to provide for competitive bidding for the purchase of certain items under their Medicaid plans.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit a State, under certain circumstances, to purchase, either through a competitive bidding process or otherwise: (1) laboratory and X-ray services; (2) family planning supplies; (3) prescription drugs; (4) dentures; (5) prosthetic devices; or (6) eyeglasses.

A bill for the relief of the Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified amount to Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital in the State of West Virginia.

A bill to amend the Public Health Act to provide that enrollment increases made by schools of medicine to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration shall not be considered in determining if the schools have met the first-year enrollment requirements for capitation grant assistance under title VII of such act.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to provide that enrollment increases made by schools of medicine to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration shall not be considered in determining if such schools have met the first-year enrollment requirements for capitation grant educational assistance.

Prescription Drug Labeling Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Prescription Drug Labeling Act -Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that in the labeling and advertising of drugs sold by prescription the established name of such drug must appear each time the drug's proprietary name is used. Allows a pharmacist to fill or refill a prescription for a drug identified by its proprietary name with a substitute drug of the same established name or the same qualitative composition, unless the prescription requires the proprietary name drug exclusively. Requires that such substitute drugs, whether identified in the prescription by proprietary or by established name, be sold at a cost to the patient which is less than the cost of the drug so identified.

A bill to increase alternatives to institutionalization for senior citizens.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, through demonstration projects payments to eligible individuals who do not require 24-hour nursing care and who desire to establish a medical, noninstitutional living arrangement: (1) post-hospital extended care services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; or (2) intermediate care facility services or skilled nursing facility services under title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act. Requires payments received to be used to finance appropriate medical, noninstitutional living arrangements. Provides that such payments shall not be includable in gross income under the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary to design the demonstration projects to determine: (1) the feasibility of transferring inpatients of skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities to noninstitutional living arrangements; (2) the types and percentage of such inpatients who could live effectively in a noninstitutional living arrangement; and (3) the types and percentages of such inpatients who would benefit economically and qualitatively from a noninstitutional living arrangement. Directs that funds for such payments be made from the Federal Hospital Insurance Fund established under the Social Security Act and from funds appropriated for Medicaid.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act for the purpose of authorizing the President to enter into agreements establishing reciprocal arrangements between the medicare program and similar programs of any foreign country.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize the President to enter into agreements establishing reciprocal arrangements between such title and the program of any foreign country providing similar services to individuals either directly or by insurance payments. Requires that any such agreement specify: (1) the nature and extent of payment to be made to or on behalf of the individuals entitled to benefits; (2) limitations on the nature and duration of health services and on entitlement of individuals to benefits on a reciprocal basis; and (3) the methods by which the cost of providing health services on a reciprocal basis shall be shared by the United States and the foreign country. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make rules and regulations and establish procedures necessary to implement and administer such agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into interim arrangements with any hospital in a foreign country which is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals or such other hospitals as the Secretary finds meet specified health and safety standards.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for certain services performed by chiropractors.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize payment for specified services performed by chiropractors, including x-rays, physical examinations, and related routine laboratory tests.

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to increase the dollar limitations and Federal medical assistance percentages applicable to the medicaid programs of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Amends titles XI, part A (General Provisions) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the dollar limitations on Medicaid payments to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands and to eliminate the 50 percent limitation on the Federal medical assistance percentages applicable to the Medicaid programs of such territories and raise such limitation to the same level as that in the States.

A bill making additional appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the National Institutes of Health to carry out research with respect to lupus erythematosus.

United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1981

Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for the National Institutes of Health to carry out lupus erythematosus research.

Veterans Administration and Department of Defense Health Resources Sharing and Emergency Operations Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Federal Interagency Medical Resources Sharing and Coordination Act of 1981 - Establishes the Federal Interagency Medical Resources Committee to be composed of the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs or their designees. Directs the Committee: (1) to evaluate the opportunities for the interagency sharing of health resources between the Department of Defense and the Veterans' Administration; (2) to prescribe policies and procedures for such interagency sharing; and (3) within 180 days after enactment of this Act, to prescribe guidelines for such interagency sharing to the directors of health care facilities of the Department and the Administration. Requires such guidelines to provide that: (1) the director of each facility shall enter into cooperative arrangements for providing health care to beneficiaries of other facilities; (2) the availability of medical care to beneficiaries of an agency other than the providing agency shall be on a referral basis; and (3) an agency shall be reimbursed for a medical service provided to a beneficiary of another agency. Directs the Committee to submit to the Committees on Appropriations of each House of Congress an annual report regarding interagency medical resource sharing activities.

A bill to Amend title XVIII of the Social Security with respect to judicial review of a decision by the Provider Reimbursement Review Board.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit judicial review of actions of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, involving more than one provider, in the judicial district of the principal party as well as in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Reyes Syndrome Act of 1981

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Reye's Syndrome Act of 1981 - Amends title XI (Genetic Disease, Hemophilia Programs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, through the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders, and Stroke, the Reye's Syndrome Coordinating Committee. Directs such Committee to: (1) make grants and enter into contracts for clinical research and treatment; and (2) establish mobile research teams. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984 for such activities. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within six months following the end of the Committee's authorization.

Voluntary Family Planning Services and Population Research Amendments of 1981

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Voluntary Family Planning Services and Population Research Amendments of 1981 - Amends title X (Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs) of the Public Health Service Act to: (1) include natural family planning methods under the coverage of training and research programs; (2) permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide recipients of grants or contracts for contraceptive development with exclusive development and marketing rights; (3) require that family planning services be available to both sexes; (4) provide for appropriate linguistic or cultural services in areas with substantial nonEnglish speaking populations; and (5) authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984 for basic family planning services, training, research, and education and information services.

A bill to amend chapter 55 of title 10 of the United States Code to qualify certain former spouses of members of the uniformed services for medical and dental benefits, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Amends the program of medical and dental care for members and certain former members of the uniformed services and for their dependents to include certain former spouses of members of the uniformed services.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include, as a home health service, nutritional counseling provided by or under the supervision of a registered dietitian.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide, under the supplementary medical insurance program, payment for nutritional counseling as part of the home health services.

Community Home Health Services Act of 1981

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Community Home Health Services Act of 1981 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make loans to proprietary entities (in addition to the home health grants now available) for home health programs to meet the initial cost of establishing and operating such programs. Authorizes appropriations for home health programs through fiscal year 1984. Directs the Secretary to submit a report concerning home health programs to the appropriate committees of the Congress. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide that home health services may be furnished by a nonprofit hospital; (2) provide coverage for homemakers services when required; (3) provide coverage for transportation related to home health items and services; and (4) include as a home health service any service furnished as an alternative to institutional care. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act to require a State plan to include home health services.

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of the services of licensed practical nurses under medicare and medicaid.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include the services of licensed practical nurses.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include dental care, eye care, dentures, eyeglasses, and hearing aids among the benefits provided by the insurance program established by part B of such title, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit payment for eye care, eyeglasses, hearing aids and related examinations, and dental care and dentures under the supplementary medical insurance program. Increases the Government contribution to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund by twice the amount of premiums that are presently paid into the Fund each month, while decreasing the portion of the Fund comprised of premiums from one-half to one-third. Excludes from the coverage of the supplementary medical insurance program expenses relating to referrals of individuals by a doctor of optometry for the diagnosis or detection of eye diseases.

A bill to provide for the delegation of duties by Professional Standards Review Organizations under title XI of the Social Security Act.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Amends part B (Professional Standards Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to permit a Professional Standards Review Organization to delegate its review responsibilities when: (1) a hospital or skilled nursing facility is able to carry out its own review responsibility; (2) some members of an institution approved by the organization can carry out such responsibilities at a related institution; or (3) the delegated long-term review staff is part of the same hospital delegated review staff. Requires such delegation of review responsibilities to be approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act for the purpose of improving certain provisions of the medicare program.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that the reasonable cost of physical, occupational, speech, or other therapy services shall be based on a reasonable rate per unit of service, plus expenses, rather than on a reasonable salary paid for such services. Removes the $100 limitation on "outpatient physical therapy services" furnished to an individual while an inpatient of a hospital or extended care facility.

National Voluntary Health Insurance Act of 1979

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

National Voluntary Health Insurance Act of 1979 - Creates a National Voluntary Health Insurance Agency to operate a National Voluntary Health Insurance Plan with funds supplied by voluntary subscriptions and matching United States Treasury funds, to pay reasonable costs of all medically necessary and appropriate medical and hospital services for all enrollees. Stipulates that the Agency shall issue no rules or regulations, but shall be governed solely by this Act and its amendments. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for the first calendar year after this Act becomes effective for the Agency to carry out its duties. Eliminates hospital and medical service insurance benefits or payments provided by other Government agencies, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Extends coverage to: (1) medical services, wherever furnished, including psychiatric medicine, surgery, obstetrics, radiological and electrical procedures, pathology tests, transfusions, medication and immunization, injections and anesthesia, and osteopathic services; (2) reconstructive oral surgery; (3) podiatric surgery; (4) laboratory services; and (5) inpatient or outpatient hospital service, supplies, medication, transfusions, and food provided by approved hospitals, including general or special category hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency wards, convalescent hospitals, nursing homes, and acute alcohol or drug toxification treatment centers. Excludes from coverage: (1) cosmetic surgery not approved under this Act; (2) certain services which are not medically necessary; (3) services for the benefit of a second party other than enrollee; (4) certain employer responsibilities, such as a workmen's compensation insurer; (5) services which are already covered by another plan; (6) unapproved hospital or laboratory services; and (7) certain other medical advice and services. Sets the amount of premium payments at $25 per month for each adult and one-half of such amount for each child. Entitles subscribers with a total earned and unearned family income of less than $12,000 per year to have their premiums calculated at 2.5 percent of such income for each adult and one-half of such amount for each child. Provides for the payment of premiums by employers and for the reinstatement of coverage on account of unpaid premiums. Directs the Agency to establish a trust fund for the deposit of all premiums and at least an equal amount of money appropriated from the United States Treasury. Directs Congress to deposit in such fund the amount of $5,000,000,000 by the effective date of the Plan, but provides that the total amount of general funds appropriated to the fund shall not exceed the total amount of subscribers' premiums after the Plan's fifth year of operation. Reserves 35 percent of the total amount of subscribers' premiums for the payment of medical and laboratory service benefits; 62 percent of such premiums for hospital service benefits; and three percent for administrative costs. Entitles an enrollee in the Plan to reimbursement in the lesser amount of either the scheduled fee payable by the Plan to a participating provider or the actual fee paid by the enrollee to any qualified nonparticipating provider. Entitles every nonexcluded and licensed medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic or podiatric medicine, and doctor of dental surgery to be listed by the Plan as a participating provider by making appropriate application. Allows such providers to require an enrollee to pay a reasonable charge in addition to the fee payable by the Plan. Provides for the approval and participation in the Plan of laboratories and hospitals. Directs the Agency to: (1) set a fee for every professionally recognized diagnostic and therapeutic medical service procedure or treatment and laboratory pathological test and procedure that is proportionate to the customary and reasonable fee for such service in each general area of the United States; and (2) provide each approved hospital with a schedule or per diem rate and charges that will be paid by the Plan to such hospital for each specified and covered service which is ordered on behalf of an enrollee by an attending doctor. Requires such hospital charges to be based on each hospital's certified annual financial and operating cost statement. Specifies certain additional requirements with respect to hospital charges. Specifies information to be included in all claimed by participating providers. Sets forth requirements with respect to the auditing, payment, and assessment of claims, and utilization of plan benefits. Authorizes the Agency to temporarily or permanently exclude any enrollee or provider of services found to have made any false claim for payment for services. Requires the Congress, at the time this Act becomes operational, to amend the rates of Social Security taxes relative to the reduction in Social Security health insurance expenditures effected by this Act. Requires the arbitration of claims for damages resulting from alleged malpractice in the provision of any service that is a benefit of the plan. Stipulates that the resources of the Agency and Plan shall not be used in any way directly to regulate the quality or availability of, or to establish or operate, medical and hospital services. Details the estimated cost of the Plan for fiscal year 1980.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the ten-year citizenship requirement for eligibility for veterans' health care benefits for lawful permanent residents of the United States who were members of the Armed Forces of Czechoslovakia or Poland during World War I or World War II and to extend such benefits to lawful permanent residents of the United States who were members of the Armed Forces of Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania during either such war.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Expands the eligibility for hospital and medical services for discharged members of the allied forces who served during World War I or World War II to include members of the armed forces of the Government of Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania who are permanent residents of the United States. Repeals the ten year residency requirement for all lawful permanent residents of the United States.

A joint resolution designating the week of October 4 through October 10, 1981, as "National Diabetes Week".

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1981

Requests the President to designate the week of October 4 through October 10, 1981, as "National Diabetes Week."

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under medicare of services performed by a nurse-midwife.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include services rendered by a nurse-midwife. Defines "nurse-midwife" to mean a registered nurse who: (1) has successfully completed a prescribed course of study or has been certified by a recognized organization; and (2) performs services in the area of mother and baby care throughout the maternity cycle.

A bill to repeal titles XV and XVI of the Public Health Service Act.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Repeals title XV (National Health Planning and Development) and title XVI (Health Resources Development) of the Public Health Service Act.

A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the provision for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to abolish the Professional Standards Review Organizations which were established to review services covered under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

A bill to expand the medical freedom of choice of consumers by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that drugs will be regulated under that Act solely to assure their safety.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that new drugs for human or animal use will be regulated under such Act solely to assure their safety, and not their effectiveness.

A bill to permit the introduction or delivery for introduction of laetrile into interstate commerce without the approval of a new drug application under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit the introduction, or delivery for introduction, of laetrile (amygdalin) into interstate commerce without the approval of a new drug application.

A bill to exempt certain blood fractions from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for five years, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1981

Exempts blood fractions used in immunoaugmentative therapy by the Immunology Researching Center, Limited, of Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas from the definition of drug under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for a period of five years.

81/21/EEC: Council Decision of 20 January 1981 amending Decision 78/167/EEC adopting a concerted project of the European Economic Community in the field of registration of congenital abnormalities (medical and public health research)

European Union · EUR-Lex · 20 January 1981

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide that clinical social worker services shall be covered under part B of Medicare and shall be a required service under Medicaid.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the services of a clinical social worker.

Prescription Drug Patent Licensing Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981

Prescription Drug Patent Licensing Act - Provides that whenever, upon complaint by a qualified applicant for a license under a drug patent, the Federal Trade Commission determines that such license application was not granted and that the price quoted to druggists by the patentee is more than 500 percent of the total cost of production, the Commission shall, after granting notice and the opportunity for a hearing, order the patentee (under penalty of patent cancellation by the Commissioner of Patents) to grant an unrestricted license to any qualified applicant to make, use, and sell such drug. Permits the Commission to delay the issuance of such order for up to five years to provide a fair return on the patentee's invested capital.

Contraceptive Labeling and Advertising Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981

Contraceptive Labeling and Advertising Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that the label and advertising for contraceptive drugs and devices state the effectiveness of such drugs and devices in preventing conception in humans. Requires a label also to state directions for use and that professional advice should be sought to determine the most appropriate form of contraception. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for determining the effectiveness of such drugs and devices.

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to make assistance available under the medicaid program for patients in mental institutions without regard to their age (instead of only for those patients in such institutions who are under 22 or over 65 as at present).

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1981

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to eliminate all age restrictions presently applicable to individuals applying for inpatient psychiatric hospital service benefits under the Medicaid program.