National Pain Care Policy Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1863
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Cancer
Chronically ill
Coinsurance
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital care
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical research
Medicare
Mental depression
Mental health services
Mental illness
Military dependents
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Pain
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Physicians
Public service advertising
Quality of life
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sleep disorders
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
White House conferences

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: National Pain Care Policy Act of 2003 - Directs the President to convene a White House Conference on Pain Care, which shall identify barriers to appropriate pain care.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to establish within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a National Center for Pain and Palliative Care Research.
Requires the Director of NIH to carry out a program to develop and advance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of pain and palliative care. Permits the Secretary to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to public and private entities to further the education and training of health care professionals in pain and palliative care.
Directs the Secretary to establish and implement a national campaign to provide information to the public on responsible pain management, related symptom management, and palliative care.
Amends Federal law to direct the Secretaries of Defense, Transportation, and Health and Human Services to develop and implement a pain care palliative initiative in all health care facilities of the uniformed services.
Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) to require Medicare+Choice plans to meet certain pain care standards. Requires TRICARE (a Department of Defense managed health care program) to meet such pain care standards.
Amends Federal law to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a pain care initiative in all health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House