3.0.0 4926 2023-01-11T13:16:22Z 2023-01-11T13:16:22Z House H HR 2010-03-24 111 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Referred to 2010-04-30T15:19:23Z Referred to 2010-03-24T14:04:19Z hsas00 Armed Services Committee House Standing hsas02 Military Personnel Subcommittee Referred to 2010-04-23T13:17:27Z Referred to 2010-03-24T14:04:20Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing hswm02 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2010-03-29T20:07:57Z Referred to 2010-03-24T14:04:18Z hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing Referred to 2010-03-24T14:04:17Z Medical Foods Equity Act of 2009 111 2766 S 2009-11-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Identical bill CRS 2010-04-30 hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Committee 2010-04-23 hsas02 Military Personnel Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Committee 2010-03-29 hswm02 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2010-03-24 Referred to House Armed Services IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsas00 Armed Services Committee 2010-03-24 Referred to House Education and Labor IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2010-03-24 Referred to House Ways and Means IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2010-03-24 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Armed Services, 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. 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[D-NY-19] John Hall D NY J. 19 2010-11-15 False Health Child health Digestive and metabolic diseases Food assistance and relief Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Medicare Nutrition and diet Poverty and welfare assistance Health 00 2010-03-24 Introduced in House 2010-04-01T15:05:09Z Medical Foods Equity Act of 2010 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to include coverage of: (1) medically necessary food and food modified to be low protein; and (2) pharmacological doses of vitamins and amino acids used for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism. Provides for similar coverage under the TRICARE program (military health care).

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to provide coverage in group and individual plans of such food and vitamins and amino acids.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to determine the minimum yearly coverage for all health insurance plans based upon the expanded coverage provided by this Act.

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