Personalize Your Care Act 2.0

Bill: 114-hr-5555
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-22
text: 

Personalize Your Care Act 2.0

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish several new programs and requirements related to end-of-life care and advance care planning.
 
The bill establishes a demonstration program to test the use of advanced illness management and early use of palliative care under Medicare.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must make grants to eligible entities for the purpose of developing, expanding, and enhancing programs for orders for life-sustaining treatment.
 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall adopt standards for electronic health records with respect to providing one-click access to specified advance care planning documentation.
 
Under Medicare, an advance directive shall be portable across state lines and may be presumed valid regardless of where it was executed. In the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with regard to health care shall be honored.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study and report on the portability, electronic storage, use, and barriers to use of advance directives.
 
The bill applies specified quality measures to end-of-life care under Medicare.
 
CMS must report annually on specified information related to Medicare decedents.
 
HHS shall award grants to increase public awareness of advance care planning. In addition, HHS shall award grants to eligible entities for the development and implementation of training and education programs related to advance care planning, hospice care, and palliative care.
 
HHS must establish an advisory committee on advance care planning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-06-22
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: 2016-06-22
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: 2016-06-22
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: 2016-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E974-975)
action_date: 2016-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-22
text: Introduced in House