Index for HR3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act

ACCOUNT ;   Recommending to Center national priorities for research described in subsection taking into

ACCOUNT potential for differences in effectiveness of health care items, services and systems used with various subpopulations ;   Designing to take into

AMBULATORY surgical center meeting requirements of titles XVIII or XIX participating in programs established under titles only if hospital or center reporting information on health care-associated infections developing in hospital or center as Secretary specifying ;   Secretary providing that hospital or

AMBULATORY surgical center ;   Nothing in section to be construed as preempting or otherwise affecting provision of State law relating to disclosure of information on health care-associated infections or patient safety procedures for hospital or

AUDITABLE data in uniform format ;   Secretary requiring skilled nursing facility electronically to submit to Secretary direct care staffing information based on payroll and other verifiable and

AUDITABLE data in uniform format ;   Secretary requiring nursing facility electronically to submit to Secretary direct care staffing information based on payroll and other verifiable and

DISTRIBUTION of covered drug, device, biological or medical supply ;   Conversion, processing, marketing or

DRUG, device, biological or medical supply required to report under subsection ;   Applicable manufacturer or distributor of covered

DISTRIBUTION of covered drug, device, biological or medical supply ;   Conversion, processing, marketing or manufacturer-direct

CERTIFICATION agency and State long-term care ombudsman program with respect to skilled nursing facility ;   Secretary developing standardized complaint form for use by resident in filing complaint with State survey and

CERTIFICATION agency and State long-term care ombudsman program with respect to nursing facility ;   Secretary developing standardized complaint form for use by resident in filing complaint with State survey and

CERTIFICATION programs ;   Links to State internet websites with information regarding State survey and

CERTIFICATION programs ;   Links to State internet websites with information regarding State survey and

CERTIFICATION recommendation making respecting skilled nursing facility to Secretary not later than date on which State sending information to facility ;   State submitting information respecting survey or

CERTIFICATION recommendation making respecting nursing facility to Secretary not later than date on which State sending information to facility ;   State submitting information respecting survey or

CIVIL money penalty imposed under clause ;   Case of

CIVIL money penalty applying to civil money penalty under clause in same manner as provisions applying to penalty or proceeding under section 1128a(a) ;   Provisions requiring hearing prior to imposition of

CIVIL money penalty imposed under subparagraph ;   Case of

CIVIL money penalty in amount not to exceed $10,000 for daying or instance of noncompliance ;   Secretary imposing

CIVIL money penalty imposed under clause ;   Case of

CIVIL money penalty applying to civil money penalty under clause in same manner as provisions applying to penalty or proceeding under section 1128a(a) ;   Provisions requiring hearing prior to imposition of

CIVIL money penalty of not less than $1,000 ;   Timely manner in accordance with regulations promulgated to carry out applicable subsection to be subject to

CIVIL money penalty under subsection to be used to carry out that section ;   Funds collected by Secretary as result of imposition of

ACCOUNT under direction of Secretary on earlier of date on which informal dispute resolution process under item completed or date being 90 days after date of imposition of penalty ;   Providing for collection of civil money penalty and placement of amounts collected in escrow

ACCOUNT under direction of State on earlier of date on which informal dispute resolution process under subclause completed or date being 90 days after date of imposition of penalty ;   Providing for collection of civil money penalty and placement of amounts collected in escrow

ACCOUNT under direction of Secretary on earlier of date on which informal dispute resolution process under item completed or date being 90 days after date of imposition of penalty ;   Providing for collection of civil money penalty and placement of amounts collected in escrow

CLINICAL decision support, relevant expert organizations and Federal and private health plans and other relevant stakeholders ;   Center providing for dissemination of appropriate findings produced by research supported, conducted or synthesized under section to health care providers, patients, vendors of health information technology focused on

CLINICAL decision support to promote timely incorporation of findings into clinical practices and promoting ease of use of incorpoations ;   Assisting users of health information technology focused on

CLINICAL excellence developed by relevant expert organizations ;   Take into consideations standards and protocols of

CLINICAL excellence meaning clinical or practice guidelines consisting of set of directions or principles based on evidence and designed to assist health care practitioner with decisions about appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic or other clinical procedures for specific clinical circumstances ;   Term standards and protocols of

CLINICAL investigation regarding new drug ;   Case of payment or other transfer of value making to covered recipient by applicable manufacturer or distributor in connection with

CLINICAL investigation registered on website maintained by National Institutes of Health pursuant to section 671 of Food and drugging Administration Amendments acting of 2007  ;  

CLINICAL investigation meaning experiment involving one or more human subjects or materials derived from human subjects in which drug or device administered, dispensed or used ;   Term

CLINICAL perspective advisory panels for research priorities under section consulting with patients and other stakeholders and advising Center on research questions ;   Appointing

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel described in subsection ;   Appointing members of Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel described subsection ;   Considering appointment to Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel described in subsection regarding particular matter ;   Prior to meeting of Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel described in subsection not participating with respect to particular matter considered in meeting of Commission or clinical perspective advisory panel if member having financial interest to be affected by advice given to Secretary with respect to matter ;   Member of Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel described in subsection essential expertise ;   Determining necessary to afford Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel ;   Participating as non-voting member with respect to particular matter considered in meeting of Commission or

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel receiving waiver ;   No more than two nonvoting members of

CLINICAL perspective advisory panel for particular national research priority ;   Research considering advice given to Center by

COMPARATIVE effectiveness research ;   Center awarding grants or contracts to private entities and governmental agencies with experience in conducting

COMPARATIVE effectiveness research recommended to be national priority under subparagraph ;   Monitoring appropriateness of use of CERTF described in subsection with respect to timely production of

COMPARATIVE effectiveness studies and using methodologies appropriately ;   Continuously developing rigorous scientific methodologies for conducting

COMPARATIVE effectiveness studies reviewed by Center ;   Ensuring that comments from patients regarding proposed

COMPENSATION, gift, honorarium, speaking fee, consulting fee, travel, services, dividend, profit distribution, stock or stock option grant or ownership or investment interest holding by physician in manufacturer ;   Term payment or other transfer of value including

COMPENSATION paid by applicable manufacturer or distributor to covered recipient directly employed and works solely for manufacturer or distributor  ;  

COMPLIANCE with standards ;   Organization taking reasonable steps to achieve

COMPLIANCE with standards ;   Organization taking reasonable steps to achieve

COMPLIANCE with State and Federal laws and regulations applicable to facilities ;   Conduct periodic reviews and preparing root-cause quality and deficiency analyses of chain to assess if facilities of chain in

COMPLIANCE by facilities of chain with State and Federal laws and regulations applicable to facilities ;   Publicly holding, involving owners of chain and principal business partners of owners in facilitating

COMPLIANCE history or substantially failed to meet applicable requirements of Act ;   Secretary identifying as poor

COMPLIANCE history or substantially failed to meet applicable requirements of Act ;   Secretary identifying as poor

COMPLIANCE program ;   Promulgating regulations for effective compliance and ethics program for operating organizations including model

COMPLIANCE program ;   Promulgating regulations for effective compliance and ethics program for operating organizations including model

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Organization to have established compliance standards and procedures to be followed by employees, contractors and other agents being reasonably capable of reducing prospect of criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Organization to have established compliance standards and procedures to be followed by employees and other agents being reasonably capable of reducing prospect of criminal, civil and

CONSUMER involvement in assuring quality care in facilities and facility improvement initiatives approved by Secretary ;   Support resident and family councils and other

CONSUMER involvement in assuring quality care in facilities and facility improvement initiatives approved by Secretary ;   Support resident and family councils and other

CONSUMER involvement in assuring quality care in facilities and facility improvement initiatives approved by Secretary ;   Support resident and family councils and other

CONTRACT or other agreement and nothing in paragraph to be construed to diminish greater or additional protection provided by Federal or State law or contract or other agreement ;   Rights protected by paragraph not to be diminished by

CONTRACT or other agreement and nothing in paragraph to be construed to diminish greater or additional protection provided by Federal or State law or contract or other agreement ;   Rights protected by paragraph not to be diminished by

CONTRACT under section 1890 convening multi-stakeholder groups to provide recommendations on selection of individual or composite quality measures for use in reporting performance information to public or use in public health care programs ;   Consensus-based entity entering into

CONTRACT provided under section 1890 ;   Recommendations to be included in transmissions consensus-based entity makes to Secretary under

CONTRACT with Secretary under section 1890(a) ;   Quality measuring specified under clause to be measures selected by Secretary from measures endorsed by entity with

CONTRACT under section 1890(a) ;   Case of specified area or medical topic determined appropriate by Secretary For which feasible and practical quality measure not endorsed by entity with

CONTRIBUTIONS as condition of receiving Federal match under clause ;   State guaranteeing that State making available particular amount of non-Federal

CONTRIBUTIONS as condition of receiving Federal match under clause ;   State guaranteeing that State making available particular amount of non-Federal

CONVICTION for relevant crime ;   Overseeing design of appropriate privacy and security safeguards for use in review of results of State or national criminal history background checks conducted regarding prospective direct patient access employee to determine whether employee having

CONVICTION for relevant crime being subject to reporting under section 1128e of Social Security Act 42 USC 1320a-7e ;   Case of employee with

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care consistent with regulations ;   Ethics program being effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care ;   Effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Organization to have established compliance standards and procedures to be followed by employees, contractors and other agents being reasonably capable of reducing prospect of criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Propensity to engage in criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act by employees and other agents and place and publicizing reporting system whereby employees and other agents reporting violations by others within organization without fear of retribution ;   Utilizing monitoring and auditing systems reasonably designed to detect criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care consistent with regulations ;   Ethics program being effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care ;   Effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Organization to have established compliance standards and procedures to be followed by employees and other agents being reasonably capable of reducing prospect of criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act ;   Propensity to engage in criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act by employees and other agents and place and publicizing reporting system whereby employees and other agents reporting violations by others within organization without fear of retribution ;   Utilizing monitoring and auditing systems reasonably designed to detect criminal, civil and

CRIMINAL history background check results of review ;   Immediately reporting to long-term care facility or provider requesting

CRIMINAL history background check conducted with respect to employee at no charge in case where individual requesting copy ;   Employee copy of results of

CRIMINAL history records including fingerprint check using Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of Federal Bureau of Investigation ;   Records of proceedings in State containing disqualifying information about prospective employees and Federal

CRIMINAL history records including fingerprint check of records ;   Overseeing coordination of State and national criminal history background checks requested by long-term care facility or provider utilizing search of State and Federal

CRIMINAL sexual abuse or other violations or crimes resulted in serious bodily injury ;   Respect to instances of violations or crimes committed inside of facility being violations or crimes of abuse, neglect and exploitation,

CRIMINAL sexual abuse or other violations or crimes resulted in serious bodily injury ;   Respect to instances of violations or crimes committed inside of facility being violations or crimes of abuse, neglect and exploitation,

HEALTH or safety of resident or residents of facility or penalty imposed for deficiency described in subclause ;   Secretary not reducing under subclause amount of penalty if penalty imposed for deficiency described in subclause or actual harm or widespread harm immediately jeopardizing

HEALTH or safety of resident or residents of facility or penalty imposed for deficiency described in clause ;   State not reducing under clause amount of penalty if penalty imposed for deficiency described in clause or actual harm or widespread harm immediately jeopardizing

IMPOSITION ;   Case where facility self-reports and promptly corrects deficiency For which penalty imposed under clause not later than 10 calendar days after date of

DEFICIENCY citations, changes in quality performance or changes in other metrics of resident quality of care ;   Evaluation determining if programs leading to changes in

DEFICIENCY citations, changes in quality performance or changes in other metrics of resident quality of care ;   Evaluation determining if programs leading to changes in

DEMENTIA management training and resident abuse prevention training after curriculum  ;  

DEMENTIA management training and resident abuse prevention training after curriculum  ;  

DISCHARGE ;   No person working at skilled nursing facility to be penalized, discriminated or retaliated with respect to aspect of employment including

DISCHARGE ;   No person working at nursing facility to be penalized, discriminated or retaliated with respect to aspect of employment including

DISCIPLINARY mechanisms as appropriate ;   Standards to be consistently enforced through appropriate

DISCIPLINARY mechanisms as appropriate ;   Standards to be consistently enforced through appropriate

DISCLOSURE under section 552 of title 5, United States Code or other similar Federal ;   Information described in paragraph or considered confidential and not subject to

DISCLOSURE or reporting of information not of type required to be disclosed or reported under section  ;  

DISCLOSURE or reporting of information described in subsection  ;  

DISCLOSURE or reporting of type of information by person or entity other than applicable manufacturer or covered recipient  ;  

DISCLOSURE or reporting of type of information required to be disclosed or reported under section to Federal  ;  

DISCRETIONARY authority to individuals organization knowing or known through exercise of due diligence ;   Organization to have used due care not to delegate substantial

DISCRETIONARY authority to individuals organization knowing or known through exercise of due diligence ;   Organization to have used due care not to delegate substantial

CLINICAL decision support, relevant expert organizations and Federal and private health plans and other relevant stakeholders ;   Center providing for dissemination of appropriate findings produced by research supported, conducted or synthesized under section to health care providers, patients, vendors of health information technology focused on

CONFIDENTIALITY agreements making with respect to use of data under section ;   Dissemination of which violating privacy of research participants or violating

DISSEMINATION to individuals with limited English proficiency ;   Center consulting with stakeholders concerning types of dissemination to be useful to end users of information and providing for utilization of multiple formats for conveying findings to different audiences including

SEARCH of State-based abuse and neglect registries and databases including abuse and neglect registries of another State in case where prospective employee previously resided in State ;   Requiring that long-term care facility or provider obtaining State and national criminal or other background checks on prospective employee through means as Secretary determining appropriate utilizing

ON-site supervision ;   During that employee to be subject to direct

EMPLOYMENT of individual ;   Providing independent process by which provisional employee or employee appealing or disputing accuracy of information obtained in background check performed under nationwide program extenuating circumstances, demonstration of rehabilitation and relevancy of particular disqualifying information with respect to current

CONVICTION for relevant crime ;   Overseeing design of appropriate privacy and security safeguards for use in review of results of State or national criminal history background checks conducted regarding prospective direct patient access employee to determine whether employee having

CONVICTION for relevant crime being subject to reporting under section 1128e of Social Security Act 42 USC 1320a-7e ;   Case of employee with

CRIMINAL history background check conducted with respect to employee at no charge in case where individual requesting copy ;   Employee copy of results of

TENURE and hours of care provided by category of certified employees referenced in clause per resident per day ;   Including information on employee turnover and

TENURE and hours of care provided by category of certified employees referenced in clause per resident per day ;   Including information on employee turnover and

EMPLOYEE'S fingerprints matching prints on file with State law enforcement department  ;  

EMPLOYEE'S fingerprints matching prints on file with State law enforcement department  ;  

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care consistent with regulations ;   Ethics program being effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

ADMINISTRATIVE violations under Act and promoting quality of care consistent with regulations ;   Ethics program being effective in preventing and detecting criminal, civil and

FINANCIAL interest to be affected by advice given to Secretary with respect to matter ;   Member of Commission or clinical perspective advisory panel described in subsection not participating with respect to particular matter considered in meeting of Commission or clinical perspective advisory panel if member having

FINANCIAL interest meaning financial interest under section 208(a) of title 18, United States coding ;   Term

FINANCIAL relationships with Manufacturers and Distributors of covered Drugs, devices, biologicals or medical Supplies under medicare, medicaid or Chip and entities billing for Services under medicare ;   Sec 1128h, financial Reports on Physicians'

FINANCIAL relationships subjecting to delayed reporting under subsection of section and recommended improvements to collection or analysis of data reported under section ;   Description of

FINGERPRINTING ;   Requiring States to describe and test methods reducing duplicative

FINGERPRINTING ;   Describing and test methods reducing duplicative

FISCAL year 2012 and subsequent fiscal year ;   Purposes of reporting data on quality measures for inpatient hospital services furnished during

FISCAL year 2012 ;   Amendments making by section applying to quality measures applied for payment years beginning with 2012 or

CLINICAL decision support, relevant expert organizations and Federal and private health plans and other relevant stakeholders ;   Center providing for dissemination of appropriate findings produced by research supported, conducted or synthesized under section to health care providers, patients, vendors of health information technology focused on

CLINICAL procedures for specific clinical circumstances ;   Term standards and protocols of clinical excellence meaning clinical or practice guidelines consisting of set of directions or principles based on evidence and designed to assist health care practitioner with decisions about appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic or other

HEALTH Care-associated infections ;   Sec 1461, requirement for public reporting by hospitals and ambulatory surgical Centers on

HEALTH Care-associated infections ;   Sec 1138a, requirement for public reporting by hospitals and ambulatory surgical Centers on

HEALTH care-associated infections developing in hospital or center as Secretary specifying ;   Secretary providing that hospital or ambulatory surgical center meeting requirements of titles XVIII or XIX participating in programs established under titles only if hospital or center reporting information on

HEALTH care-associated infections ;   Information to be set forth in manner allowing for comparison of information on

HEALTH care worker immunization rates ;   Factors contributing to occurrence of infections including

AMBULATORY surgical center ;   Nothing in section to be construed as preempting or otherwise affecting provision of State law relating to disclosure of information on health care-associated infections or patient safety procedures for hospital or

HEALTH care delivered and related to receiving health care ;   Term health care-associated infection meaning infection developing in patient received care in institutional setting where

HEALTH care meaning that infection not incubating or present at time health care provided ;   Term related to receiving

HEALTH care entity billing Secretary under part A or part B of title XVIII for services reporting on ownership shares of physician owning interest in entity ;   Hospital or other

HEALTH care entity, applicable manufacturer, applicable distributor or applicable group purchasing organization required to report physician ownership under subsection ;   Hospital, other

HEALTH care services in United States ;   Secretary entering into agreements with qualified entities to develop quality measures for delivery of

HEALTH care settings including end of life care ;   Continuity and coordination of care and care transitions for patients across providers and