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WASHINGTON -- The House and Senate are negotiating legislation that would establish a voluntary medical error reporting system with the goal of passing a consensus measure by the August recess, lawmakers and staffers say.
Following a June 9 hearing of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health, Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), chairman of the subcommittee on Health, told reporters that the measure is likely to have some variations from last year's versions of the bill, but said the scope of the proposed legislation is the same. "Hopefully, if we can get a consensus worked out, it would be a bill that I think...
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