Congress 107 - S 1281 - Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2001

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Access to health care Administrative procedure Agriculture and Food Air pollution control Air quality Alaska Ambulatory care Authorization Cancer Case management Chemicals Chiropractic and chiropractors Chronically ill Clinics Coinsurance Communication in medicine Community health services Congress Congressional reporting requirements Continuum of care Department of Health and Human Services Disabled Drug abuse Drug abuse treatment Economics and Public Finance Education Environmental health Environmental Protection Environmentally induced diseases Executive reorganization Families Family medicine Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to medical education Federal aid to rural areas Federal aid to substance abuse programs Federally-guaranteed loans Finance and Financial Sector Government lending Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Hawaiians Health Health education Health information systems Health insurance Health planning Health services administration Higher education Home care services Homeless Homeless children Housing and Community Development Immigrant health Immigration Indian medical care Indigenous peoples Indoor air pollution Labor and Employment Language and languages Law Lead Lead poisoning Managed care Marriage counseling Medical economics Medical fees Medical residents Medical screening Medical statistics Medical technology Medically underinsured Medically uninsured Medicare Mental health services Mentoring Midwives Migrant labor Minorities Minority health Nonprofit organizations Nurse practitioners Nurses Pesticides Pharmacists Physicians' assistants Poor children Preventive medicine Psychiatrists Psychologists Public health personnel Public housing Quality of care Rural health Rural hospitals Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Seasonal labor Social Welfare Social workers Sparsely populated areas Student loan funds Technology assessment Telemedicine Translating and interpreting Transportation and Public Works Travel costs

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Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2001 - Reauthorizes the health centers program under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Includes within: (1) "required primary health services" appropriate cancer screening (currently, screening for breast and cervical cancer), specialty referral when medically indicated, and specified housing-related services; and (2) "additional health services" the detection and remediation of lead exposures. Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants for translation services for clients for whom English is a second language.

Rewrites PHSA provisions regarding rural health. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Rural Health Policy to: (1) award rural health network development grants to promote the development of integrated health care networks; and (2) award grants for the planning and implementation of small health care provider quality improvement activities.

Telehealth Grant Consolidation Act of 2001 - Establishes in HRSA an Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, headed by a Director.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible certified home care providers for the provision of tele-home care.

Reauthorizes and rewrites PHSA provisions regarding the National Health Service Corps program. Prohibits an entity to which a Corps member is assigned from denying requested health services and discriminating in the provision of services because an individual is unable to pay.

Establishes a Healthy Communities Access program to help coordinate services for uninsured and under-insured.

Amends the Social Security Act to provide exemptions from copayment and deductible requirements for rural health clinics.

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Aug 1, 2001

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jul 31, 2001

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jul 31, 2001

Introduced in Senate

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