US Congress House Bill 1173

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March 15 2013 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment. Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive, and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment. Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013

Rep Blumenauer, Earl	Rep Bera, Ami	Rep Capps, Lois	Rep Farr, Sam
Rep Hanna, Richard L.	Rep Kind, Ron	Rep Larson, John B.	Rep Levin, Sander M.
Rep McDermott, Jim	Rep Miller, George	Rep Peters, Scott H.	Rep Reed, Tom
Rep Roe, David P.	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y.

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-15	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-03-14	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2013-03-14	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-03-14	House	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.
2013-03-14	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E300)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN01173:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1173ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1173ih.pdf