Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act of 2006
Latest action · Jun 23, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 24, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of comprehensive cancer care planning services.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a two-year demonstration project for Medicare payment for comprehensive cancer care symptom management services furnished by an eligible entity in accordance with a described plan.
Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities for establishing a new, or expanding an existing, palliative care and symptom management program for cancer patients.
Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to improve the quality of graduate and postgraduate training of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, as well as continuing professional education, in palliative care and symptom management for such patients.
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a program of grants for research on palliative care, symptom management, communication skills, and other end-of-life topics for such patients.
Cosponsors 36
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 24, 2006 to Nov 15, 2006, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-VA | Tom Davis | Original | May 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Jun 6, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Jun 6, 2006 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Jun 6, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Jun 15, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Jun 15, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Jun 15, 2006 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Jul 10, 2006 | |
| D-NC | Bob Etheridge | Jul 10, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Jul 10, 2006 | |
| R-VA | Jo Ann Davis | Jul 10, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Solomon P. Ortiz | Jul 10, 2006 | |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Jul 17, 2006 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Jul 17, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Jul 17, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 23, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 24, 2006Introduced in House
- May 24, 2006Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Cancer
- Case management
- Communication in medicine
- Comprehensive health care
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Graduate education
- Health
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Law
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medical research
- Medicare
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Terminal care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 24, 2006Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.