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HR 1927 111th Congress House

Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009

Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare Program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management.

Introduced: September 23, 2009 See on congress.gov
Health CancerComprehensive health careHealth programs administration and fundingMedical research
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Apr 21, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 2, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Apr 2, 2009
Referred 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.
Apr 2, 2009
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Apr 2, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 21, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, to provide for Medicare coverage of comprehensive cancer patient treatment education services.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for the conduct and support of research with respect to: (1) improving the treatment and management of symptoms and side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment; and (2) evaluating the role of nursing interventions in the amelioration of such symptoms and side effects.

Requires the NIH Director to make nursing intervention research grants for studying cancer symptom management care and services delivered by registered nurses.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement under which the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences shall evaluate and report to the Secretary and Congress on the current state of symptom management, patient treatment education, and supportive care given to people with cancer.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 9
All 9 Democratic 7 Republican 1
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Garamendi, John
California · Sep 28, 2010
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Doggett, Lloyd
Texas · Jun 14, 2010
Massa, Eric
· Sep 23, 2009
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Lofgren, Zoe
California · Sep 14, 2009
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Sep 8, 2009
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Jun 2, 2009
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jun 2, 2009
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Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · May 20, 2009
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Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Apr 21, 2009
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1927: Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1927/
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"H.R. 1927: Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Management Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1927/.
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H.R. 1927, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1927/.
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