A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study and submit a report to Congress on new technology payments under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress on the methods by which new medical devices, new drugs, biologicals, and other new technologies are recognized for payment under the hospital outpatient department prospective payment system under Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act), and on possible changes to those methods.
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Oct 3, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 3, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9907)