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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 1369 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act, and for other purposes. · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Title I—Indian Health Care Improvement Act reauthorization and amendments Sec. 101. Reauthorization. Sec. 102. Findings. Sec. 103. Declaration of national Indian health policy. Sec. 104. Definitions. Subtitle A—Indian health manpower Sec. 111. Community Health Aide Program. Sec. 112. Health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs.
Sec. 113. Exemption from payment of certain fees. Subtitle B—Health services Sec. 121. Indian Health Care Improvement Fund. Sec. 122. Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund. Sec. 123. Diabetes prevention, treatment, and control. Sec. 124. Other authority for provision of services; shared services for long-term care. Sec. 125. Reimbursement from certain third parties of costs of health services. Sec. 126. Crediting of reimbursements. Sec. 127. Behavioral health training and community education programs.
Sec. 128. Cancer screenings. Sec. 129. Patient travel costs. Sec. 130. Epidemiology centers. Sec. 131. Indian youth grant program. Sec. 132. American Indians Into Psychology Program. Sec. 133. Prevention, control, and elimination of communicable and infectious diseases. Sec. 134. Methods to increase clinician recruitment and retention issues. Sec. 135. Liability for payment. Sec. 136. Offices of Indian Men’s Health and Indian Women’s Health. Sec. 137. Contract health service administration and disbursement formula.
Subtitle C—Health facilities Sec. 141. Health care facility priority system. Sec. 142. Priority of certain projects protected. Sec. 143. Indian health care delivery demonstration projects. Sec. 144. Tribal management of federally owned quarters. Sec. 145. Other funding, equipment, and supplies for facilities. Sec. 146. Indian country modular component facilities demonstration program. Sec. 147. Mobile health stations demonstration program. Subtitle D—Access to health services Sec. 151.
Treatment of payments under Social Security Act health benefits programs. Sec. 152. Purchasing health care coverage. Sec. 153. Grants to and contracts with the Service, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to facilitate outreach, enrollment, and coverage of Indians under Social Security Act health benefit programs and other health benefits programs. Sec. 154. Sharing arrangements with Federal agencies. Sec. 155. Eligible Indian veteran services.
Sec. 156. Nondiscrimination under Federal health care programs in qualifications for reimbursement for services. Sec. 157. Access to Federal insurance. Sec. 158. General exceptions. Sec. 159. Navajo Nation Medicaid Agency feasibility study. Subtitle E—Health services for urban Indians Sec. 161. Facilities renovation. Sec. 162. Treatment of certain demonstration projects. Sec. 163. Requirement to confer with urban Indian organizations. Sec. 164. Expanded program authority for urban Indian organizations.
Sec. 165. Community health representatives. Sec. 166. Use of Federal Government facilities and sources of supply; health information technology. Subtitle F—Organizational improvements Sec. 171. Establishment of the Indian Health Service as an agency of the Public Health Service. Sec. 172. Office of Direct Service Tribes. Sec. 173. Nevada area office. Subtitle G—Behavioral health programs Sec. 181. Behavioral health programs. Subtitle H—Miscellaneous Sec. 191. Confidentiality of medical quality assurance records; qualified immunity for participants.
Sec. 192. Limitation on use of funds appropraited to the Indian Health Service. Sec. 193. Arizona, North Dakota, and South Dakota as contract health service delivery areas; eligibility of California Indians. Sec. 194. Methods to increase access to professionals of certain corps. Sec. 195. Health services for ineligible persons. Sec. 196. Annual budget submission. Sec. 197. Prescription drug monitoring. Sec. 198. Tribal health program option for cost sharing. Sec. 199. Disease and injury prevention report.
Sec. 200. Other GAO reports. Sec. 201. Traditional health care practices. Sec. 202. Director of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment. Title II—Amendments to other Acts and miscellaneous provisions Sec. 201. Elimination of sunset for reimbursement for all Medicare part B services furnished by certain indian hospitals and clinics. Sec. 202. Including costs incurred by aids drug assistance programs and indian health service in providing prescription drugs toward the annual out-of-pocket threshold under part D.
Sec. 203. Prohibition of use of Federal funds for abortion. Sec. 204. Reauthorization of Native Hawaiian health care programs.
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