US Congress House Bill 574 (Prior Session Legislation)

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January 16 2009 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of home infusion therapy and home infusion drugs. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement the Medicare home infusion therapy benefit in a manner that ensures that: (1) Medicare beneficiaries have timely and appropriate access to infusion therapy in their homes; and (2) there is rapid and seamless coordination between drug coverage under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) and home infusion therapy services coverage under Medicare part B (Supplemental Security Income).

Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2009

Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y.	Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny	Rep Granger, Kay	Rep Hall, Ralph M.
Rep Paul, Ron	Rep Reichert, David G.	Rep Stearns, Cliff	Rep Wamp, Zach
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G.	Rep Fortenberry, Jeff	Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G.	Rep Rogers, Mike D.
Rep Young, Don	Rep Tonko, Paul D.	Rep Sestak, Joe	Rep Shea-Porter, Carol
Rep Tierney, John F.	Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr.	Rep Peterson, Collin C.	Rep Griffith, Parker
Rep McGovern, James P.	Rep Meeks, Gregory W.	Rep Murphy, Tim	Rep Platts, Todd Russell
Rep Tonko, Paul D.	Rep Smith, Christopher H.	Rep Blunt, Roy	Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr.
Rep Smith, Adrian	Rep Snyder, Vic	Rep Souder, Mark E.	Rep Terry, Lee
Rep Wilson, Charles A.	Rep Wilson, Joe	Rep Akin, W. Todd	Rep Broun, Paul C.
Rep Harper, Gregg	Rep Kingston, Jack	Rep Kirk, Mark Steven	Rep Schauer, Mark H.
Rep Ross, Mike	Rep Carney, Christopher P.	Rep Dent, Charles W.	Rep Emerson, Jo Ann
Rep Gerlach, Jim	Rep Kirkpatrick, Ann	Rep LoBiondo, Frank A.	Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine
Rep Moran, Jerry	Rep Perlmutter, Ed	Rep Petri, Thomas E.	Rep Rehberg, Denny
Rep Pitts, Joseph R.	Rep Gordon, Bart	Rep Weiner, Anthony D.	Rep Welch, Peter
Rep Baldwin, Tammy	Rep Berry, Marion	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Brady, Robert A.
Rep Capuano, Michael E.	Rep Carnahan, Russ	Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Courtney, Joe
Rep Davis, Artur	Rep Stupak, Bart	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Oberstar, James L.
Rep Abercrombie, Neil	Rep Braley, Bruce L.	Rep DeGette, Diana	Rep Engel, Eliot L.
Rep Green, Gene	Rep Kagen, Steve	Rep Markey, Edward J.	Rep Massa, Eric J. J.
Rep Matsui, Doris O.	Rep Murphy, Christopher S.	Rep DeLauro, Rosa L.	Rep Doyle, Michael F.
Rep Driehaus, Steve	Rep Lynch, Stephen F.	Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.	Rep McCarthy, Carolyn
Rep McCollum, Betty	Rep Moore, Dennis	Rep Moran, James P.	Rep Nadler, Jerrold
Rep Pierluisi, Pedro R.	Rep Price, David E.	Rep Ryan, Tim	Rep Sarbanes, John P.
Rep Loebsack, David	Rep Larson, John B.	Rep Ellison, Keith	Rep Farr, Sam
Rep Filner, Bob	Rep Gonzalez, Charles A.	Rep Green, Al	Rep Grijalva, Raul M.
Rep Higgins, Brian	Rep Himes, James A.	Rep Hinchey, Maurice D.	Rep Hirono, Mazie K.
Rep Kaptur, Marcy	Rep Schiff, Adam B.

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-01-16		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2009-01-15		Referred to House Ways and Means
2009-01-15		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2009-01-15		Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

SB254 (Same As) 2009-01-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S613-614)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN00574:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr574ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr574ih.pdf