Children's Health Care Quality Act

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish programs to improve the quality, performance, and delivery of pediatric care.

6/14/2007--Introduced.
Children's Health Care Quality Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to:
(1) identify quality and performance measures for pediatric service providers; and
(2) award grants or contracts for the development, validation, and testing of new and emerging measures. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to establish demonstration projects to award grants to states to improve the delivery of health care services to children under Medicaid and SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP). Requires demonstration projects in the categories of:
(1) health information technology systems;
(2) disease management for children with chronic conditions;
(3) evidence-based quality improvement; and
(4) quality and performance measures for providers of children's health care services. Requires the Comptroller General to make recommendations to Congress for the design and implementation of a demonstration project to evaluate the suitability of existing quality and performance measures for children's inpatient hospital services for public reporting, differentiating quality, identifying best practices, and providing a basis for payment rewards.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1]
• and 20 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Mary Bono Mack [R, CA-45]
  • Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
  • Rep. George Butterfield [D, NC-1]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. Michael Capuano [D, MA-8]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Michael Ferguson
  • Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Ralph Hall [R, TX-4]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • William Jefferson
  • Rep. Ronald Kind [D, WI-3]
  • Rep. Jim Matheson [D, UT-2]
  • Michael McNulty
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Deborah Pryce
  • Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 1 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2723

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 14, 2007

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• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 14, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Jun 14, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.1226

Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Budgets
• Child health
• Children
• 18 more
• Chronically ill
• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Diseases
• Federal aid to child health services
• Health information systems
• Health services administration
• Hospital care
• Information technology
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Performance measurement
• Public contracts
• Quality of care
• Technology
• Welfare

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