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United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires skilled nursing facilities to provide medically related social services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires under titles XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, that skilled nursing facilities employ at least one registered professional nurse twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the making of direct loans at 4 percent or the current market interest rate, whichever is lower, under the Public Health Service Act, for the construction and rehabilitation of nursing homes owned and operated by churches and other nonprofit organizations. Authorizes to be appropriated such as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under title XX of the Social Security Act, to provide for a system of inspections of State inspection and enforcement mechanisms with regard to facilities receiving payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides educational and performance requirements for long-term care facility personnel compensated with Federal funds who are responsible for determining whether such institutions comply with health and safety standards required under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides, under the Social Security Act, for the establishment of an Inspector General for health administration. Authorizes the Inspector General to suspend any regulation, practice, or procedure found not to be in compliance with the provisions or purposes of the Medicare or Medicaid programs. Authorizes the Inspector General to make confidential expenditures of up to $50,000 in any fiscal year to make inspections, audit, or reviews in furtherance of the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires under the Social Security Act that in order for States to be eligible for payments pursuant to title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act, that they must have in effect an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in which the State agrees to carry out a specified inspection program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe such inspection program with respect to public and private nursing and intermediate care facilities to determine if such facilities meet standards affecting the well-being of the patients. Stipulates that the inspection program will include: (1) inspections at least once every three months; (2) making the results of such inspection public; and (3) notification to the facility of any noncompliance with applicable standards. Requires in such agreement with the Secretary that such State undertake to enforce the rights enumerated by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires admissions contracts between nursing homes participating in Federal programs and the patients they serve under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that only registered professional nurses or licensed practical nurses may set up or distribute medications in skilled nursing facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide grants for the planning, development, construction, and rehabilitation of nursing homes in black and minority communities under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes medicare or medicaid patients individually or as a class to bring suit under the Social Security Act for specific performance without regard to the $10,000 jurisdictional amount, in Federal district court aginst a long-term care facility which is in violation of its provider agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires that payment forms submitted from nursing homes for reimbursement under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act contain warnings with regard to penalties imposed for misrepresentation of the amounts due under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Revises titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make unlawful the offer or receipt of consideration for the referral of patients, clients, or customers. Establishes a fine up to $10,000 and/or a jail term of up to one year for violation of this provision.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires State plans under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act to be ratified by both the State's legislative and executive branch before being presented to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval, and requires that such plans be posted and available to the public. Directs the Secretary to annually review a State's compliance with such plan and to publish performance ratings for the States. Creates a cause of action allowing Medicaid recipients individually or as a class to bring suit against a State for specific performance when a State fails to comply with the provisions of its plan.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the updating of safety provisions in skilled nursing facilities under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for placing responsibility for medical care provided by skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act in a medical director who is to be a physician on call in emergencies and who either (1) spends 10 hours a week in each facility for which he is responsible or (2) spends 2 hours per week in such facility and is assisted by a nurse practitioner (whose functions are defined in the Act) who spends at least 20 hours per week at the facility.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the States to incorporate financial incentives for good care within the context of their cost-related reimbursement formulae under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act, effective July 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the 100 percent Federal financing of the State costs in inspecting nursing homes. Provides for Federal assistance for the States' new enforcement tools such as a citation system and protective custodianship and other alternatives to license revocation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires that accurate records of the handling of accounts, personal expense moneys, and valuables of patients receiving benefits under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act be maintained; that a receipt be given and recorded for such items; and that they be kept separate from similar items owned by the facility caring for such patients.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a rating system for nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act as a guide to consumers. States that such ratings shall be based on surveys available to the Secretary under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, that nursing homes post their current license, medicare/medicaid certification, a list of owners of the facility, the names of staff, a patient's bill of rights as well as a description of services offered by the facility, and the facility's charges therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients, and for supervisory nurses to total nurses under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires physician visits to patients in skilled nursing facilities at least once every thirty days under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for intermediate care services or extended care services for up to 100 days during any spell of illness under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Hospital Insurance for the Aged). Reduces the amount payable for intermediate care services or extended care services by a specified coinsurance amount. Sets forth the conditions and limitations on payment for intermediate or extended care services. Sets for the definition of the terms "intermediate care facility "and" intermediate care services" for the purposes of this Act. Provides for conforming technical amendments. Sets forth the procedure for payment of claims of providers of intermediate nursing care. Authorizes to be appropriated from general revenues of the Government to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for each fiscal year, beginning with 1974, such amounts as may be necessary to reimburse such trust funds for 100 percent of the expenditures required to be made from such trust funds to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Long-Term Care in 1976. Directs the Conference to consider methods to: (1) make long-term health care available to those who need it; (2) provide alternatives to nursing home placement; (3) improve the quality of care offered in long-term care facilities; and (4) provide for a necessary benefits structure to make long-term care a right of all Americans. Requires that the Conference submit a final report to the President not later than one hundred and twenty days following the date on which the Conference is called. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish an Advisory Committee to the Conference composed of not more than twenty-eight professionals and public members. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the States to incorporate financial incentives for good care within the context of their cost-related reimbursement formulae under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act, effective July 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the 100 percent Federal financing of the State costs in inspecting nursing homes. Provides for Federal assistance for the States' new enforcement tools such as a citation system and protective custodianship and other alternatives to license revocation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires that accurate records of the handling of accounts, personal expense moneys, and valuables of patients receiving benefits under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act be maintained; that a receipt be given and recorded for such items; and that they be kept separate from similar items owned by the facility caring for such patients.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a rating system for nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act as a guide to consumers. States that such ratings shall be based on surveys available to the Secretary under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the updating of safety provisions in skilled nursing facilities under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for placing responsibility for medical care provided by skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act in a medical director who is a physician on call in emergencies and who either (1) spends 10 hours a week in each facility for which he is responsible or (2) spends 2 hours per week in such facility and is assisted by a nurse practitioner (whose functions are defined in the Act) who spends at least 20 hours per week at the facility.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the making of direct loans at 4 percent or the current market interest rate, whichever is lower, under the Public Health Service Act, for the construction and rehabilitation of nursing homes owned and operated by churches and other nonprofit organizations. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under title XX of the Social Security Act, to provide for a system of inspections of State inspection and enforcement mechanisms with regard to facilities receiving payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the making of grants under the Public Health Service Act to public or nonprofit colleges and universities to assist them in establishing graduate programs for nurses in geriatrics and gerontology.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes medicare or medicaid patients individually or as a class to bring suit under the Social Security Act for specific performance, without regard to the $10,000 jurisdictional amount, in Federal district court against a long-term care facility which is in violation of its provider agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides educational and performance requirements for long-term care facility personnel compensated with Federal funds who are responsible for determining whether such institutions comply with health and safety standards required under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 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.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Title I: Survey And Certification, Ratesetting And Audit, And General Regulation Of Long-Term Care Facilities Under Medicaid Programs - Requires that a State plan for medical assistance must provide that no skilled nursing facility may receive payments under such plan unless and until it is approved to receive payments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Provides that such State plan require that the State agency have the power to terminate reimbursement to a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility which violates its provider agreement. Requires such State plan to include that the inspection and medical review shall serve as the basis for determining the overpayment to such facility, and the amount such agency must refund. Requires such State plan to provide that any skilled nursing facility receiving payments under the plan be required to maintain with the State agency a bond to anticipate any and all claims for overpayment. Title II: Medical, Psychological, And Social Assessment Of Patients In Need Of Long-Term Care Under Medicare And Medicaid Programs - Requires that for payment of services furnished and individual under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that a physicain's certification be based on such patient assessment criteria as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may require. Provides that a State plan msut include a regular program of medical review utilizing such criteria as required by the Secretary of meeting their health care needs through alternative institutional or noninstitutional services.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires that payment forms submitted from nursing homes for reimbursement under the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act contain warnings with regard to penalties imposed for misrepresentation of the amounts due under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides 100 percent Federal funding of financial audits of skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities participating in the medicaid program conducted by State personnel pursuant to the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides criminal penalties under the Social Security Act for the offer or receipt of consideration for the referral of patients, clients, or customers under the Medicare or Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires nursing homes participating in Federal programs pursuant to title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to have in effect procedures to prevent epidemic diseases and accidents and for reporting them immediately to appropriate authority and next of kin of patients involved in any untoward incident affecting health and safety.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides criminal penalties under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for: (1) the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money, or consideration over and above the rates established by the States; or (2) the acceptance of any gift, money, or donation, as a precondition of admitting a patient to a long-term care facility.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires State plans under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act to be ratified by both the State's legislative and executive branch before being presented to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval; and requires that such plans be posted and available to the public. Directs the Secretary to annually review a State's compliance with such plan and to publish performance ratings for the States. Creates a cause of action allowing Medicaid recipients individually or as a class to bring suit against a State for specific performance when a State fails to comply with the provisions of its plan.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires skilled nursing facilities to provide medically related social services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires States, under the Medicaid program of the Social Security Act, to establish ombudsman programs to investigate nursing home complaints and represent consumer interests.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires admissions contracts between nursing homes participating in Federal programs and the patients they serve under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires, under title XCIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, that nursing homes post their current license, medicare/medicaid certification, a list of owners of the facility, the names of staff, a patient's bill of rights as well as a description of services offered by the facility and the facility's charges therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Requires a minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients, and for superviosry nurses to total nurses under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the modification of the medicare reimbursement formula under title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow small hospitals in rural areas with low occupancy to provide long term care in those areas where there are no appropriate nursing home beds available.