HR 1173 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 14, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Earl Blumenauer D-OR

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 11, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 14, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.

Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive, and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment.

Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.


Cosponsors 59

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2013 to Sep 17, 2014, with 10 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-PAAllyson Y. SchwartzOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CAAmi BeraOriginalMar 14, 2013
R-TNDavid P. RoeOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-WAJim McDermottOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CALois CappsOriginalMar 14, 2013
R-NYRichard L. HannaOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-WIRon KindOriginalMar 14, 2013
R-NYTom ReedOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CASam FarrMar 21, 2013
D-CTJohn B. LarsonApr 17, 2013
D-MISander M. LevinApr 17, 2013
D-CAScott H. PetersMay 8, 2013
R-WIThomas E. PetriJul 11, 2013
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Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 11, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Mar 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House
  4. Mar 14, 2013Referred 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.
  5. Mar 14, 2013Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E300)

Subjects

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

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  1. Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House

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