A bill to amend titles XVII and XIX of the Social Security Act making unlawful the offer or receipt of consideration for the referral of patients, clients, or customers.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for the updating of safety provisions in skilled nursing facilities.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require physicians visits to patients in skilled nursing facilities at least once every 30 days.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Security Act to provide for the establishment of an Inspector General for health administration.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to require that payment forms submitted from nursing homes contain warnings with regard to penalties imposed under section 1877 and 1909.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to require the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a rating system for nursing homes participating in Federal programs as a guide to consumers.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require minimum ratios for nursing home personnel to patients for supervisory nurses to total nurses.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
A bill to amend title 19 of the Social Security Act to make certain requirements with respect to long-term care facility personnel compensated with Federal funds who are responsible for determining whether such limitations comply with health and safety standards required under such Act.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to authorize medicare or medicaid patients individually or as a class to bring suit for specific performance in Federal district court against a long-term care facility which is in violation of its provider agreement.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require strict controls for the handling of patients' accounts, personal expense moneys, and valuables.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act to require nursing homes to 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.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for a system of inspections of State inspection and enforcement mechanisms with regard to facilities receiving payments under titles XVIII and XIX.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to authorize interest subsidy payments to assist nursing homes in repair and renovation in order to comply with Federal standards.
1975-06-10: Rereferred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to continue 100 per centum Federal financing of the State costs in inspecting nursing homes and to assist the States new enforcement tools such as a citation system and protective custodianship and other alternatives to license revocation.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend title 19 of the Social Security Act to require States to establish ombudsman programs to investigate nursing home complaints and represent consumer interests.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to authorize 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.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to authorize the States to incorporate financial incentives for good care within the context of their cost-related reimbursement formulas effective July 1, 1976.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to make unlawful the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money, or consideration over and above the rates established by the States and to make unlawful the solicitation or acceptance of any gift, money, or donation as a precondition of admitting a patient to long-term care facility.
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Nursing Home Personnel In-Service Training Act
1975-05-21: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975.
1975-01-28: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.