US Congress House Bill 3361 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on July 28 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-07-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Patient Safeguards Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) efforts to make the Medicare program financially sustainable, including application of comparative effectiveness research, should not deprive patients of medically necessary care solely due to its cost or limit access to needed health care services due to a patient's age, gender, ethnicity, or disability status; and (2) Congress should protect patients' access to needed care by ensuring that the Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on adequate clinical expertise when the Administrator proposes to narrow coverage for a product or service under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Establishes a process for the issuing of Medicare national coverage determinations by the Administrator. Enumerates prohibitions and conditions.

Medicare Patient Safeguards Act of 2009

Rep. Rodney Alexander [R-LA]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]	Rep. John Fleming [R-LA]
Rep. Phil Gingrey [R-GA]	Rep. John Linder [R-GA]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. David Reichert [R-WA]
Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-07-29		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2009-07-28		Referred to House Ways and Means
2009-07-28		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2009-07-28		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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3361/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr3361/BILLS-111hr3361ih.pdf