Title: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to ensure nursing facilities report information on medical directors of such facilities.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise regulations so as to specifically require Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities to report the identity of medical directors and related information.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8832 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8832

    To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to ensure nursing 
 facilities report information on medical directors of such facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2022

 Mr. Levin of California (for himself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced 
 the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to ensure nursing 
 facilities report information on medical directors of such facilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ENSURING NURSING FACILITIES REPORT INFORMATION ON MEDICAL 
              DIRECTORS OF SUCH FACILITIES.

    Section 1124(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-3(c)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following 
        new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Updated regulations.--Not later than 2 years 
                after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, 
                the Secretary shall revise the regulations promulgated 
                pursuant to subparagraph (A) to require, effective on 
                the date that is 90 days after the date on which such 
                revised regulations are published in the Federal 
                Register, a facility to include in reports required 
                under this section the information described in 
                paragraph (2)(A)(ii)(II) with respect to managing 
                employees who are medical directors of such facility. 
                Beginning 6 months after such revised regulations are 
                so published, the Secretary shall make such information 
                so reported with respect to medical directors of a 
                facility publicly available on the Nursing Home Compare 
                website under section 1819(i) (or a successor 
                website).''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5)(C), by inserting ``and shall include a 
        medical director of such facility'' before the period at the 
        end.
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