S 2879
107th Congress
Senate
Health
Auditing
Case mix (Medical care)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hours of labor
Internet
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing homes
Quality of care
Nursing Home Staffing Accountability Act of 2002
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 1, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 1, 2002
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Nursing Home Staffing Accountability Act of 2002 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the information posted daily by skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities for each nursing shift to include information regarding nurse staffing with respect to beds made available by reason of an agreement between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a hospital to use its inpatient hospital facilities to furnish services which, if furnished by a skilled nursing facility, would constitute extended care services.
Requires a skilled nursing facility and a nursing facility to submit electronically to the Secretary at least quarterly the nursing staff data posted daily for each nursing shift. Requires the Secretary to make such data publicly available, including on an Internet website. Requires a periodic audit of such data.
Provides that, for as long as the Secretary publishes quality measures to help the public compare the quality of care that nursing facilities provide, these quality measures shall include a quality measure for nursing staff.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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