US Congress Senate Bill 1066 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-8-1)
Status: Introduced on May 18 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-05-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% permanently the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, in rural and urban areas. Makes permanent the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, (and beyond January 1, 2010) for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.

Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Sen. Christopher Bond [R-MO]	Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]
Sen. Kent Conrad [D-ND]	Sen. Byron Dorgan [D-ND]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-SC]
Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]	Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]	Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA]	Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D-AR]
Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-05-18		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2443 (Same As) 2009-05-15 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/1066/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s1066/BILLS-111s1066is.pdf