HR 569 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act of 2003

Introduced Feb 5, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Jennifer Dunn R-WA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 14, 2003 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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 5, 2003
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act of 2003 - 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, 2004; (2) set the national fee schedule amounts for tests performed; and (3) establish a mechanism for review of the adequacy of payment amounts for a particular test.

Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) 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; or (2) substituting for the fee schedule amount otherwise established under the Act for a test a least costly alternative fee schedule amount.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 5, 2003 to Sep 3, 2003, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-WAJim McDermottOriginalFeb 5, 2003
R-MNJim RamstadOriginalFeb 5, 2003
R-NJMike FergusonOriginalFeb 5, 2003
D-FLPeter DeutschOriginalFeb 5, 2003
D-WIGerald D. KleczkaFeb 25, 2003
R-MOJo Ann EmersonFeb 25, 2003
R-WIMark GreenFeb 25, 2003
R-TXPete SessionsFeb 25, 2003
R-PAPhil EnglishFeb 27, 2003
D-NCDavid E. PriceMar 5, 2003
D-ILBobby L. RushMar 20, 2003
D-MAJames P. McGovernApr 10, 2003
D-MABarney FrankApr 29, 2003
D-CAAnna G. EshooMay 8, 2003
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyMay 9, 2003
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 14, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Feb 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Feb 5, 2003Introduced in House
  4. Feb 5, 2003Referred 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.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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