S. 1577: Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act
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S. 1577: Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act
110th Congress · introduced 2007-06-07 · Health · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1035.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2007-06-07 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1035. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act
Plain summary
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act - (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for long-term care (LTC) facilities or providers to conduct background checks on prospective direct patient access employees on a nationwide basis. (Sec. 4) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for mandatory state use of the National Correct Coding Initiative administered by the Secretary to promote correct coding and to control improper coding leading to inappropriate payment. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify those methodologies of the National Correct Coding Initiative compatible to Medicaid claims; (2) identify those methodologies that should be incorporated into Medicaid claims with respect to items or services for which no national correct coding methodologies have been established under such Initiative; and (3) notify states of such methodologies and how they are to incorporate them into Medicaid claims. (Sec. 5) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, to extend through FY2017 and increase funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.
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Official text
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate with amendment(s))
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] · 16 cosponsors
Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act (2008-09-17); CBO cost estimate: S. 1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act (2008-09-17)
Cosponsors on this site
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ron Wyden (D-OR)
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Words on this page, explained (2)
- Ballot initiative
- A proposed law or constitutional amendment that citizens place on the ballot by gathering enough voter signatures, so voters decide it directly. About half the states allow some form of it.
- Securities
- Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate with amendment(s))
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-110s1577.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/110/s>
Record fed-us-cong110-s1577 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110