[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2489 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2489

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage 
under the Medicare Program of certain additional oral anticancer drugs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 17, 1995

 Mrs. Vucanovich introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 
Commerce, 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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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage 
under the Medicare Program of certain additional oral anticancer drugs.

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

SECTION 1. MEDICARE COVERAGE OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL ORAL ANTICANCER 
              DRUGS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1861 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395x) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (s)(2)(Q)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(i)'' after ``(Q)'', and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following: ``and
            ``(ii) an oral drug (which is approved by the Federal Food 
        and Drug Administration) prescribed for use as an anticancer 
        nonsteroidal antiestrogen and aromastase inhibitor agent for a 
        given indication;''; and
            (2) in subsection (t), by inserting ``or used in an 
        anticancer nonsteroidal antiestrogen and aromatase inhibitor 
        regimen'' after ``regimen''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1834(j)(5)(F)(iv) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395m(j)(5)(F)(iv)) is amended by striking ``therapeutic''.
    Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to 
drugs furnished on or after the first day of the first month that 
begins more than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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