Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer Act

Bill: 108-s-2771
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Breast cancer
Cancer
Case management
Cervical cancer
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinical trials
Colon cancer
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health counseling
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Home care services
Hospices (Terminal care)
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Information networks
Language and languages
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical associations
Medical education
Medical innovations
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medicare
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Nurses
Nursing education
Ombudsman
Pain
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Quality of life
Research and development
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Quality of Care for Individuals with Cancer Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the development of core sets of quality of cancer care measures to be used in Federal programs.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to : (1) award grants to expand the ability of State cancer registries to monitor and evaluate the quality of cancer care; (2) establish the Cancer Surveillance System to monitor State cancer registries; and (2) provide for the development, expansion, and evaluation of such registries.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to: (1) conduct and support research pertaining to the quality of cancer care; and (2) award grants to develop or adopt model systems of cancer care.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to establish a National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program to improve the quality of cancer care.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants regarding quality of cancer care, including grants to develop: (1) cancer case management programs; (2) model programs for the delivery of palliative care; (3) programs for cancer survivorship; (4) end-of-life programs; and (5) curricula for health care provider training. 
 
Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to: (1) establish and support programs to assure an adequate and diverse cancer care workforce; and (2) support multidisciplinary, translational cancer research.
 
Sets forth conditions for the waiver of certain requirements for making grants to States for breast cancer and cervical cancer programs.
 
Requires the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to evaluate State and Federal comprehensive cancer control programs and the quality of care received by Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8760-8766)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate