Health Reform Details
- What's New
- Title I. Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans
- Title II. The Role of Public Programs
- Title III. Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care
- Title IV. Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health
- Title V. Health Care Workforce
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Title VI. Transparency and Program Integrity
- Enhancing Choices with Full Disclosure of Physician Financial Interests
- Patient-Centered Medical Research to Strengthen the Doctor and Patient Relationship
- Making Nursing Home Choices with Information about Quality and Safety
- Increasing Nursing Home Staff Training
- Improving Nursing Home Safety
- Background Checks for Employees of Long-Term Care Facilities
- Preventing and Eliminating Elder Abuse
- Reining in Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP
- Enhanced Medicare and Medicaid Program Integrity Provisions
- Additional Medicaid Program Integrity Provisions
- Medical Malpractice Demonstration Grants
- Title VII. Improving Access to Innovative Medical Therapies
- Title VIII. Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act)
- Title IX. Revenue Provisions
- Title X. Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
- La Propuesta del Presidente
Title VI. Transparency and Program Integrity
Background Checks for Employees of Long-Term Care Facilities
The Act will require background checks for employees who have direct access to patients of Long Term care facilities.
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