Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Finance, Government Operations.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HE2A099F9FB4C4CD59C2CE5BBA912C5C7: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act.
- Section HD494FEC9216D43B8A821AFB9C37CAF1C: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term communicate, with respect to health care safety information, includes written or oral communications. The term government...
- Section H4EA8C9384C2B4EBC8B77153FD6558DFD: 3. Prohibition on retaliation A health care facility may not retaliate against a health care practitioner for communicating about patient safety concerns,...
- Section H4B01233305914FBF9FD2475C156F3446: 4. Enforcement A health care facility that retaliates against a health care practitioner for communicating patient safety concerns is liable to that...
- Section H4A89589A0E464D1585C1AE9DFF35EA20: 5. Professional liability actions In any civil or criminal action against a health care facility or health care practitioner relating to professional...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Finance, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
This bill, Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Ms. Scanlon introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
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