Title: Patient Navigator Enhancement Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Patient Navigator Enhancement Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to use unobligated amounts from the Provider Relief Fund (a funding mechanism for reimbursing health care providers for expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19) to carry out the Patient Navigator Research Program of the National Cancer Institute.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4790 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4790

 To increase funding for the Patient Navigator Research Program of the 
                       National Cancer Institute.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 6, 2022

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase funding for the Patient Navigator Research Program of the 
                       National Cancer Institute.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Patient Navigator Enhancement Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR THE PATIENT NAVIGATOR RESEARCH PROGRAM OF THE 
              NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall use amounts 
allocated under subsection (b) for purposes of carrying out the Patient 
Navigator Research Program of the National Cancer Institute.
    (b) Allocation of Amounts.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, out of any unobligated amounts returned by or recouped from 
recipients of past distributions from the Provider Relief Fund, the 
Secretary shall allocate such amounts as the Secretary determines 
appropriate for purposes of carrying out subsection (a).
    (c) Provider Relief Fund.--In this section, the term ``Provider 
Relief Fund'' means the funding appropriated to prevent, prepare for, 
and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for 
necessary expenses to reimburse, through grants or other mechanisms, 
eligible health care providers for health care related expenses or lost 
revenue attributable to coronavirus for which appropriations are made 
under--
            (1) the third paragraph under the heading ``Department of 
        Health and Human Services--Office of the Secretary--Public 
        Health and Social Services Emergency Fund'' in division B of 
        the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136);
            (2) the first paragraph under the heading ``Department of 
        Health and Human Services--Office of the Secretary--Public 
        Health and Social Services Emergency Fund'' in division B of 
        the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act 
        (Public Law 116-139); and
            (3) the fourth paragraph under the heading ``Department of 
        Health and Human Services--Office of the Secretary--Public 
        Health and Social Services Emergency Fund'' in title III of 
        division H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public 
        Law 116-260).
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