3.0.0 1335 2019-11-15T21:52:58Z 2019-11-15T21:52:58Z Senate S S 2005-06-29 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-06-30T02:16:05Z 2005-06-29 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2005-06-29 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7634-7635) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-06-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN N K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2005-06-29 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2005-06-29 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2005-06-29 True Health Administrative law judges Administrative remedies Department of Health and Human Services Executive reorganization Government Operations and Politics Law Medicare Social Security Administration Social Welfare Health 00 2005-06-29 Introduced in Senate 2005-07-28T21:18:59Z Justice for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2005 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to require administrative law judges in the Department of Health and Human Services involved with the Medicare appeals process to be bound only by applicable statutes, regulations, and rulings issued in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act. Declares that such judges shall not be required to give substantial deference to local coverage determinations, local medical review policies, or Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program guidance.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure, in providing for the geographic distribution of administrative law judges, that: (1) there is at least one site in each state, the District of Columbia, and each territory for in-person hearings before a judge; and (2) there are at least two such sites in the five states with the largest populations, geographically distributed within each state.

Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) if an individual entitled to or enrolled for Medicare benefits requests a hearing before an administrative law judge, it shall be in-person unless he or she requests that it be conducted using tele- or video-conferencing technologies; and (2) the time frame to decide an appeal is not different for either kind of hearing.

Delays from October 1, 2005, until October 1, 2006, the transfer of the adjudication authority of administrative law judges responsible for hearing Medicare cases from the Commissioner of Social Security and the Social Security Administration to the Secretary and the Department of Health and Human Services.

]]> Justice for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Justice for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2005 Display Title Justice for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to appeals before administrative law judges under the medicare program. Introduced in Senate 2005-06-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s1335is/xml/BILLS-109s1335is.xml 2005-06-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.