S 631 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act

Introduced Mar 18, 2009 Originated Senate Sponsor Herb Kohl D-WI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 18, 2009 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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.

IntroducedMar 18, 2009
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for long-term care facilities or providers to conduct background checks on prospective direct patient access employees on a nationwide basis under similar terms and conditions as the pilot program established under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.

Sets forth requirements for states wishing to participate in the program, including requiring: (1) searches of neglect registries and databases; (2) searches of any proceedings that may contain disqualifying information; (3) searches of federal criminal history records, including a fingerprint check; and (4) methods that reduce duplicative fingerprinting.

Sets forth program requirements.

Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to evaluate the program under this Act.

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require state claims processing and information retrieval systems to incorporate compatible methodologies of the National Correct Coding Initiative administered by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to identify and notify states as to which methodologies should be incorporated.

Cosponsors 13

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 18, 2009 to Mar 25, 2009, with 11 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MN	Amy Klobuchar	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-MI	Carl Levin	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-IN	Evan Bayh	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-MA	John F. Kerry	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-PA	Robert P. Casey Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse	Original	Mar 18, 2009
R-ME	Susan M. Collins	Original	Mar 18, 2009
R-MS	Thad Cochran	Original	Mar 18, 2009
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Mar 23, 2009
R-GA	Johnny Isakson		Mar 25, 2009

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 18, 2009Introduced in Senate
Mar 18, 2009Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 18, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3375-3376)

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 2223	Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act	Related bill	May 4, 2009

Subjects

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

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Mar 18, 2009Introduced in Senate

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