[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1328 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1328

   To enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out 
    activities to reduce waste and fraud under the medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 30 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

   Mr. Burns introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out 
    activities to reduce waste and fraud under the medicare program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR MEDICARE ANTI-FRAUD AND 
              SECONDARY PAYER ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) In General.--In addition to any amounts appropriated to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for each of the fiscal years 
described in subsection (b), there are hereby appropriated (out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated) to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services an additional $100,000,000 for the year to 
conduct and finance peer review activities under title XI of the Social 
Security Act, enforce the provisions of title XVIII of such Act that 
prohibit payments under the medicare program for items and services for 
which the medicare program is not the primary payer, impose sanctions 
on entities providing items and services under the program that engage 
in fraud or other prohibited activities, and to carry out other 
activities to reduce waste and fraud in the administration of the 
medicare program.
    (b) Years For Which Additional Appropriations Are Made.--Subsection 
(a) shall apply to fiscal years 1994 through 1997.

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