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 S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Patient Safety and Whistleblower Protections Act.
- Section id4e260bc534fc4dcb850441bc245bb477: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term communicate, with respect to health care safety information, includes written or oral communications. The term government...
- Section ide6472093a2334e788f05daeb51306fd1: 3. Prohibition on retaliation A health care facility may not retaliate against a health care practitioner for communicating about patient safety concerns,...
- Section id2a118d89855d41f68b0a68cffd3cc4a8: 4. Enforcement A health care facility that retaliates against a health care practitioner for communicating patient safety concerns is liable to that...
- Section id3c51ca64ec2d466f93f0884431f86be6: 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 CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Murphy introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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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