Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act”.
Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
A BILL
To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure appropriate approval for certain skilled nursing facility and nursing facility nursing aide training and competency evaluation programs under the Medicare and Medicaid program.
Sec. 2 Ensuring appropriate approval for certain skilled nursing facility and nursing facility nursing aide training and competency evaluation programs under the Medicare and Medicaid program
in subparagraph (B)(iii)—
in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking “subparagraphs (C) and (D)” and inserting “subparagraph (C)”; and
in subclause (I)—
in item (b), by striking “or” at the end;
by amending item (c) to read as follows:
“(c) has been assessed a civil money penalty described in subsection (h)(2)(B)(ii) or section 1919(h)(2)(A)(ii) of not less than $12,924 and has been cited for a deficiency relating to the quality of care provided to residents of the facility; or”
by adding at the end the following new item:
“(d) has been subject to a remedy described in clause (i) or (iii) of subsection (h)(2)(B), subsection (h)(4), section 1919(h)(1)(B)(i), or in clause (i), (iii), or (iv) of section 1919(h)(2)(A), or”
by striking subparagraph (D).
in subparagraph (B)(iii)—
in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking “subparagraphs (C) and (D)” and inserting “subparagraph (C)”; and
in subclause (I)—
in item (b), by striking “or” at the end;
by amending item (c) to read as follows:
“(c) has been assessed a civil money penalty described in subsection (h)(2)(A)(ii) or section 1819(h)(2)(B)(ii) of not less than $12,924 and has been cited for a deficiency relating to the quality of care provided to residents of the facility; or”
by adding at the end the following new item:
“(d) has been subject to a remedy described in subsection (h)(1)(B)(i), clauses (i), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (h)(2)(A), clauses (i) or (iii) of section 1819(h)(2)(B), or section 1819(h)(4), or”
by striking subparagraph (D).