Support Our Health Care Providers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1926
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Aircraft
Alaska
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Auditing
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Claims
Clinical trials
Colon cancer
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Competitive bidding
Computer security measures
Conferences
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer price indexes
Cost control
Cost effectiveness
Cost of living adjustments
Dentistry
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Directories
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Eye diseases
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Financial statements
Fraud
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publications
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health counseling
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health surveys
Hepatitis
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Imaging systems in medicine
Indemnity
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian medical care
Influenza
Information technology
Insulin
Internet
Judicial review
Kidney diseases
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Long-term care
Mammography
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical innovations
Medical laboratories
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medical tests
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Medigap
Mental health services
Mental illness
Minorities
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Nursing homes
Nutrition
Ombudsman
Optometry
Osteoporosis
Ovarian cancer
Paramedical personnel
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Performance measurement
Pharmacies
Physical examinations
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Pneumonia
Prescription pricing
Preventive medicine
Prostate cancer
Psychiatric hospitals
Puerto Rico
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Telemedicine
Telephone
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Vaccination
Vocational and technical education
Web sites
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Support Our Health Care Providers Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to services in rural areas, inpatient hospital services, physician services, preventive services, certain demonstrations and studies, home health services, graduate medical education (GME), chronic care improvement, regulatory and contracting reform, education and outreach, appeals and recovery, as well as specified aspects of the Medicaid program under title XIX.
 
(S. 1926 is identical, except with respect to any provider cuts or premium increases, to titles IV through VII of the conference report of H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, which became Public Law 108-173 on December 8, 2003. It excludes titles I (Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit), II (Medicare Advantage), III (Combatting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse), XI (Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals), and XII (Tax Incentives for Health and Retirement Security) of the conference report of H.R. 1.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15420-15470)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15420)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate