US Congress House Concurrent Resolution 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-02 - Referred to House Ways and Means
Pending: House Ways And Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Calls for: (1) the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that HHS programs, policies, and practices facilitate innovation of, and access to, medical devices that restore or improve intestinal or urinary system function of people in the United States with an ostomy; and (2) ostomy products to be recognized, categorized, covered, and reimbursed in a new payment category of prosthetic supplies, consistent with Medicare's current recognition of ostomy products as prosthetics.

Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

Rep. Brian Bilbray [R-CA]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]
Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. William Owens [D-NY]	Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-02		Referred to House Ways and Means
2010-03-02		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2010-03-02		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-concurrent-resolution/245/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hconres245/BILLS-111hconres245ih.pdf