Title vi transparency and program integrity

The Act promotes nursing home safety by encouraging self corrections of errors, requiring background checks for employees who provide direct care and by encouraging innovative programs that prevent and eliminate elder abuse. Finally, the Act reins in waste, fraud and abuse by imposing tough new disclosure requirements to identify high-risk providers who have defrauded the American taxpayer.

It gives states new authority to crack down on providers who have been penalized in one state from setting up in another. And it gives states flexibility to propose tort reforms that address several criteria, including reducing health care errors, enhancing patient safety, encouraging efficient resolution of disputes, and improving access to liability insurance. Title VI. Related Video. Stay Connected With Email Alerts sign up. To give patients greater choices, doctors with financial interests in imaging services, like MRI services, must inform the patients in writing that they can obtain the recommended imaging service from a person other than the referring physician, and provide a contact list.

To prevent conflicts of interests and insure full transparency and information for patients, the Act requires all drug companies, device, and medical supply manufacturers to fully disclose and report any gifts they make or financial arrangements they have with doctors, a physician practice or group. All pharmacy benefit managers PBM that manage the prescription drug portion of health plans under Medicare or the Exchange must report information regarding any rebates, discounts, or price concessions they negotiate for prescription drugs.

It establishes a demonstration project to test and implement a national independent monitoring program to oversee inter-State and large intra-State nursing home chains.

And to make sure that families and residents have the chance to prepare and plan, the administrator of a facility preparing to close must provide written notice to residents, legal representatives of residents and the State in advance of closing the facility. In this week's address, the President celebrates the fiftieth birthdays of Medicare and Medicaid, which together have allowed millions to live longer and better lives.