Long-term Care Quality and Modernization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6199
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Clinics
Data banks
Depreciation and amortization
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Quality of care
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Taxation
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
 Long-term Care Quality and Modernization Act of 2006 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Secretary Act to require states to establish a process for joint training and education for nursing home surveyors and providers at least annually as changes to regulations, guidelines, and policy governing nursing facility operations are implemented. Requires individuals newly hired as surveyors to be assigned full-time to a nursing facility to observe actual operations outside of the survey process before the individuals begins oversight responsibilities.
 
Sets forth provisions related to resumption of nursing aid training program for skilled nursing facilities after correction of deficiencies.
 
Permits: (1) split or shared Medicare billing by physicians and nurse practitioners in such facilities; and (2) nurse practitioners employed by such facilities to certify skilled care under Medicaid.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a condition-based system of physical therapy services based on medical necessity; and (2) utilize an area wage index for such facilities based on wage data from such facilities and not from hospitals to determine a federal per diem for such facilities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to exclude from the Medicare prospective payment system for such facilities: (1) high cost and low probability cancer treatment drugs; (2) all ambulance services; and (3) additional items and services that the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
 
Eliminates the hospital stay requirement for coverage of extended care services under Medicare. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to establish a national nursing database to be used to predict future nursing shortages. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a 10-year recovery period for qualified long-term care improvement property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House