HR 1798 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act

Introduced May 10, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Jennifer Dunn R-WA

Latest action · May 24, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 10, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish procedures for determining the basis for, and amount of, Medicare payment for any clinical diagnostic laboratory test with respect to which a new or substantially revised Health Care Financing Administration Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code is assigned on or after January 1, 2002; (2) set the national fee schedule amounts for tests performed; (3) establish a mechanism for review of the adequacy of payment amounts for a particular test; and (4) prohibit the Secretary from delegating the authority to make determinations with respect to clinical diagnostic laboratory tests to a regional office of the Health Care Financing Administration or to a certain contracted entity.

Prohibits the Secretary from assigning a code for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test that differs from the code recommended by the American Medical Association Common Procedure Terminology Editorial Panel and results in lower payment than would be made if the Secretary accepted such recommendation solely on the basis that the test is a test that may be performed by a laboratory with a certificate of waiver under the Public Health Service Act.

Cosponsors 32

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 10, 2001 to Apr 18, 2002; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	May 10, 2001
R-MN	Jim Ramstad	Original	May 10, 2001
R-MD	Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.	Original	May 10, 2001
R-NJ	Marge Roukema		May 15, 2001
D-MA	Barney Frank		Jun 5, 2001
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 5, 2001
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Jun 7, 2001
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Jun 7, 2001
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Jun 12, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 12, 2001
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jun 14, 2001
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka		Jun 19, 2001
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Jun 19, 2001
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jun 26, 2001
R-MD	Constance A. Morella		Jul 11, 2001
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jul 11, 2001
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jul 11, 2001
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Jul 19, 2001
R-CA	Stephen Horn		Jul 27, 2001
R-IN	Dan Burton		Aug 2, 2001
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 6, 2001
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Sep 6, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink		Sep 6, 2001
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Sep 6, 2001
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Sep 12, 2001
D-NC	David E. Price		Oct 2, 2001
R-OH	Deborah Pryce		Oct 16, 2001
R-NY	John E. Sweeney		Oct 16, 2001
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Nov 7, 2001
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Nov 13, 2001
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Jan 23, 2002
D-IN	Julia Carson		Apr 18, 2002

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred May 10, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 22, 2001
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred May 10, 2001
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 24, 2001

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 24, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 22, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 10, 2001Introduced in House
May 10, 2001Referred 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 3

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 107-105	MEDICARE MODERNIZATION: EXAMINING THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM AS A MODEL FOR SENIORS105 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Mar 20, 2002
Serial No. 107-55	PRESIDENT'S 2003 BUDGET PROPOSALS FEATURING HHS SECRETARY THOMPSON58 pages	Ways and Means Committee	Feb 6, 2002
Serial No. 107-45	H.R. 2768, THE ``MEDICARE REGULATORY AND CONTRACTING REFORM ACT OF 2001''108 pages	Ways and Means Committee	Sep 25, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish procedures for determining payment amounts for new clinical diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under the Medicare Program.
Short Titles as Introduced: Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act

Subjects

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Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 10, 2001Introduced in House

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