S 1784 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

National MEDiC Act

Introduced Sep 28, 2005 Originated Senate Sponsor Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 28, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedSep 28, 2005
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

National Medical Error Disclosure and Compensation Act or the National MEDiC Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Office of Patient Safety and Health Care Quality to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors across the health care system.

Requires the Director of the Office to establish and maintain a National Patient Safety Database to receive nonidentifiable patient safety work product.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to establish the National Medical Error Disclosure and Compensation (MEDiC) Program to provide for the confidential disclosure of medical errors and patient safety events, reduce preventable medical errors, ensure patient access to fair compensation for medical injury due to medical error, negligence, or malpractice, and reduce the cost of medical liability for health care providers. Requires Program participants to: (1) spend savings from the Program on reducing medical liability premiums or on activities to reduce medical errors; (2) report to a patient safety officer any medical error or patient safety event or any legal action related to the medical liability of a health care provider; (3) report to the patient any medical error that resulted in harm; and (4) offer to negotiate compensation with the patient and offer to provide an apology.

Requires the Director to award grants to facilitate the reporting, collection, and analysis of patient safety data and the development and dissemination of training guidelines and other recommendations to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety and quality of care.

Requires the Director to analyze: (1) patient safety data to determine performance and systems standards, tools, and best practices for health care providers; (2) the medical liability insurance market to determine legal costs related to medical liability, factors leading to such legal costs, and the success of any state reforms; and (3) patient safety data to examine cases that were not successfully negotiated through the Program.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 28, 2005.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-ILBarack ObamaOriginalSep 28, 2005

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 28, 2005Introduced in Senate
  2. Sep 28, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  3. Sep 28, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10599)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Sep 28, 2005Introduced in Senate

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