Congress 107 - S 1756 - Medical Excellence Demonstration Program Act of 2001

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Chronically ill Clinics Colleges Community health services Department of Health and Human Services Education Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Health information systems Health planning Higher education Hospices (Terminal care) Hospital care Hospitals Housing and Community Development Medical fees Medical records Medical statistics Medical technology Medicare New Hampshire Patients' rights Performance measurement Physicians Quality of care Rural health Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Terminal care Urban affairs Urban areas

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Medical Excellence Demonstration Program Act of 2001 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program under which the Secretary conducts population-based demonstration projects to test the use of providing incentives to comprehensive centers for medical excellence that: (1) eliminate underuse of effective care by beneficiaries; (2) ensure the safety of care provided to such individuals; (3) reduce scientific uncertainty in the delivery of care through outcomes measurement and research; (4) encourage shared decision-making for specific treatments and the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care; (5) encourage resource allocation decisions based on efficient practice benchmarks; (6) promote the conservative delivery of care when more intensive care is wasteful if not harmful; and (7) reward such centers for improving the quality of care and achieving efficient allocation of resources.

Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a Medicare claims-based information system that links individual sites and providers benchmarks for evaluating health care quality and efficiency; and (2) within the Department of Health and Human Services a National Steering Committee for Comprehensive Centers for Medical Excellence Demonstration Projects to recommend the design of such demonstration program and to provide a forum for coordination of Federal support for it.

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Dec 3, 2001

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 3, 2001

Introduced in Senate

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