Expanding cancer screening provider training

Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.), as amended by section 4, is further amended by inserting after section 317P–1 the following: 317P–2. Women’s health care providers demonstration training project (a) Establishment of program The Secretary shall establish a demonstration program to award 3-year grants to eligible entities for the training of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care providers related to life-saving breast and gynecologic cancer screening for women, including appropriate follow-up care and screening for abnormal results. (b) Purpose The purpose of the program under this section is to enable each grant recipient to— (1) provide to licensed physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care providers, through clinical training, education, and practice, the most up-to-date clinical guidelines, research, and recommendations adopted by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in the area of preventive cancer screening for breast and gynecologic cancers, including for women with dense breast tissue; (2) establish a model of training for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care providers that specialize in women’s health care, with a specific focus on breast and gynecologic cancer screening and follow up care, that may be replicated nationwide; (3) train physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health care providers to serve rural and underserved communities, low-income communities, and communities of color in breast and gynecologic cancer screening and follow up care; and (4) provide implicit bias, cultural competency, and patient-centered communication training covering the ways in which structural racism and discrimination manifest within the medical field and perpetuate racial disparities in gynecologic cancer incidence and mortality rates and how to communicate with patients through a knowledgeable and culturally empathetic lens. (c) Eligible entities To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be— (1) an entity that receives funding under section 1001 or section 1003; (2) an essential community provider, as defined in section 156.235 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations), that is primarily engaged in family planning; (3) an entity that furnishes items or services to individuals enrolled in a State Medicaid program or waiver of such a plan; or (4) an entity that, at the time of application, provides cancer screening services under the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program under title XV..