Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-882
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hospital care
Hospitals
Law
Liability (Law)
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Physicians
Pregnant women
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2007 - Establishes the United States Bipartisan Commission on Access to Emergency Medical Services to: (1) identify and examine factors in the health care delivery, financing, and legal systems that affect the effective delivery of screening and stabilization services furnished in hospitals that have emergency departments pursuant to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA); and (2) make specific recommendations to Congress with respect to federal programs, policies, and financing needed to assure the availability of such screening and stabilization services and the coordination of state, local, and federal programs for responding to disasters and emergencies. 
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for additional payments for certain physicians' emergency services furnished pursuant to EMTALA.
 
Requires critical access hospitals with an emergency department to report annually to the Secretary of Health and Human Services information on the hospital's average admission period for the year. Requires the Secretary to post the reported information promptly on the official public Internet site of the Department of Health and Human Services.
 
Directs the Secretary, based on the information reported for 2008, to develop an emergency department quality measure, if it is determined that one should be included in the performance measures hospitals are required to report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House