ESRD Modernization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4927
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Case mix (Medical care)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health surveys
Home care services
Kidney diseases
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical research
Medicare
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-care
Social Welfare
Social work
Surgeons
Surgery
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
ESRD Modernization Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to provide for an annual update mechanism under the Medicare end stage renal disease (ESRD) program to adjust the payment rates for changes in input prices and inflation. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to: (1) increase public awareness about the factors that lead to chronic kidney disease, and how to prevent and treat it; and (2) enhance chronic kidney disease surveillance systems and research.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish demonstration projects to enable individuals with ESRD to develop self-management skills. 
 
Provides for Medicare coverage of kidney disease patient education services.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish demonstration projects to evaluate how blood flow monitoring affects care for Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD; (2) provide appropriate incentives to improve the home dialysis benefit; (3) arrange with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the barriers to increasing the number of individuals with ESRD who elect to receive home dialysis services under Medicare; (4) cover surgical procedures the full range of dialysis access procedures for Medicare-entitled individuals with ESRD; and (5) establish demonstration projects evaluating methods that improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impact of the temporary codes for nephrologists' services applicable under the fee schedule for physicians' services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1501-1502)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House