HR 1577
110th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Case management
Families
Family services
Health
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
National Guard
War casualties
Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Navigators Act
Introduced: March 20, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 3, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Mar 20, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Mar 20, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Patient Navigators Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Department of Defense (DOD)-wide patient navigator program and assign responsibility for overseeing the program to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
Requires patient navigators to be assigned as representatives to medical holdover patients and their families in order to improve health care outcomes. Prohibits the ratio of navigators to patients from being higher than one to ten.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Committees of jurisdiction
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