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This Act may be cited as the . Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act of 2014 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I—Advance Care Planning Subtitle A—Consumer and Provider Education Part I—Consumer Education SUBPART A—National initiatives Sec. 101. Advance care planning telephone hotline. Sec. 102. Advance care planning information clearinghouses. Sec. 103. Advance care planning toolkit. Sec. 104.
National public education campaign. Sec. 105. Update of Medicare and Social Security handbooks. Sec. 106. Authorization of appropriations. SUBPART B—State and local initiatives Sec. 111. Financial assistance for advance care planning. Sec. 112. Grants for programs for orders regarding life sustaining treatment. Part II—Provider Education Sec. 121. Public provider advance care planning website. Sec. 122. Continuing education for physicians and nurses. Subtitle B—Portability of Advance Directives;
Health Information Technology Sec. 131. Portability of advance directives. Sec. 132. State advance directive registries; driver's license advance directive notation. Sec. 133. GAO study and report on establishment of national advance directive registry. Subtitle C—National Uniform Policy on Advance Care Planning Sec. 141. Study and report by the Secretary regarding the establishment and implementation of a national uniform policy on advance directives. TITLE II—Compassionate Care Subtitle A—Workforce development Part I—Education and training Sec. 201.
National Geriatric and Palliative Care Services Corps. Sec. 202. Exemption of palliative medicine fellowship training from Medicare graduate medical education caps. Sec. 203. Medical school curricula. Subtitle B—Coverage under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP Part I—Coverage of advance care planning Sec. 211. Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP coverage. Part II—Hospice Sec. 221. Adoption of MedPAC hospice payment methodology recommendations. Sec. 222. Removing hospice inpatient days in setting per diem rates for critical access hospitals.
Sec. 223. Hospice payments for dual eligible individuals residing in long-term care facilities. Sec. 224. Delineation of respective care responsibilities of hospice programs and long-term care facilities. Sec. 225. Adoption of MedPAC hospice program eligibility certification and recertification recommendations. Sec. 226. Concurrent care for children. Sec. 227. Making hospice a required benefit under Medicaid and CHIP. Sec. 228. Medicare Hospice payment model demonstration projects.
Sec. 229. MedPAC studies and reports. Sec. 230. HHS Evaluations. Subtitle C—Quality Improvement Sec. 241. Patient satisfaction surveys. Sec. 242. Development of core end-of-life care quality measures across each relevant provider setting. Sec. 243. Accreditation of hospital-based palliative care programs. Sec. 244. Survey and data requirements for all Medicare participating hospice programs. Subtitle D—Additional reports, research, and evaluations Sec. 251. National Center On Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
Sec. 252. National Mortality Followback Survey. Sec. 253. Demonstration projects for use of telemedicine services in advance care planning. Sec. 254. Inspector General investigation of fraud and abuse. Sec. 255. GAO study and report on provider adherence to advance directives.