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H.R. 2797: Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017

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H.R. 2797: Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-07 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017

Plain summary

Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to create and test a new Medicare model for advanced illness and care management that would enable certain Medicare beneficiaries with serious, chronic progressive, or advanced illnesses, to voluntarily engage in a planning process to obtain specialized care consistent with their health care goals. At least one participant in this model must be a hospice program. The model requires an interdisciplinary team comprised of physicians, nurses, and social workers to work together to provide beneficiaries and their caregivers with information and services on disease trajectory, treatment options, and available care. Information on advance care planning must be included in the Medicare & You Handbook. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must: (1) award grants to certain public or private entities to increase awareness of advance care planning and advanced illness care, (2) establish the Advance Care Planning Advisory Council to advise HHS on issues relating to advanced and terminal illnesses, and (3) issue an annual report analyzing the circumstances of deceased Medicare beneficiaries.

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Official text

Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 31 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

André Carson (D-IN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Seth Moulton (D-MA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Austin Scott (R-GA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Bill Foster (D-IL), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2797 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115