3.0.0 3917 2023-01-11T13:17:50Z 2023-01-11T13:17:50Z House H HR 2009-10-22 111 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2009-10-23T18:55:37Z Referred to 2009-10-22T14:02:44Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2009-10-22T14:02:45Z 2009-10-23 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2009-10-22 Referred to House Ways and Means IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2009-10-22 Referred 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2009-10-22 Referred to House Energy and Commerce IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2009-10-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2009-10-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S001045 Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1] BART STUPAK D MI 1 N P000373 Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16] JOSEPH PITTS R PA R. 16 2009-10-22 True Health Drug therapy Health care costs and insurance Home and outpatient care Medical tests and diagnostic methods Medicare Health 00 2009-10-22 Introduced in House 2009-11-24T19:27:24Z Medicare Nuclear Medicine Payment Group Clarification Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for treatment of certain costs for a nuclear medicine group in the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department services.

Declares that services classified within a nuclear medicine group shall not be treated as comparable with respect to the use of resources, and therefore shall be excluded from the group, if the highest median cost (or, at the Secretary's election, mean cost) of any associated diagnostic radiopharmaceutical included in the payment for the service within the group is more than two times greater than the lowest median cost (or mean cost, if so elected) for a service within the group.

]]> Medicare Nuclear Medicine Payment Group Clarification Act of 2009 Display Title Medicare Nuclear Medicine Payment Group Clarification Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize and improve the Medicare payment methodology for radiopharmaceuticals under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system and to ensure equitable payment and patient access to certain low volume, high cost radiopharmaceuticals. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Nuclear Medicine Payment Group Clarification Act of 2009 Introduced in House 2009-10-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr3917ih/xml/BILLS-111hr3917ih.xml 2009-10-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 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.