To provide for a grace period in which durable medical equipment suppliers may meet Medicare accreditation and surety bond requirements.
Latest action · Dec 16, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedDec 8, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes a six-month grace period following enactment of this Act during which otherwise qualifying durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers that do not yet meet Medicare accreditation and surety bond requirements must meet them. Requires such suppliers to be treated as having met the requirements between the effective date of the requirements and the date on which they first meet them, so long as they actually do meet them within six months after enactment of this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 16, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 9, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 8, 2009Introduced in House
- Dec 8, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- Dec 8, 2009Referred to House Ways and Means
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
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- Dec 8, 2009Introduced in House
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