[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 952 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 952

 To repeal the Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 1995

   Mrs. Fowler (for herself, Mr. Baker of Louisiana, Mr. Buyer, Mr. 
     Clement, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Goss, Mr. 
Knollenberg, Ms. Meek of Florida, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Ms. Pryce, and 
 Mr. Stearns) 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 subsquently 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 repeal the Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REPEAL OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID COVERAGE DATA BANK.

    (a) In General.--Effective January 1, 1994, section 13581 of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 is hereby repealed and any 
provision of the law amended by such section is restored and shall be 
applied and administered as if such a section had not been enacted into 
law.
    (b) Study and Report.--
            (1) Study.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the ``Secretary'') 
        shall conduct a study on how to achieve the objectives of the 
        data bank described in section 1144 of the Social Security Act 
        (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
        this Act) in the most cost-effective manner, taking into 
        account--
                    (A) the administrative burden of such data bank on 
                private sector entities and governments,
                    (B) the possible duplicative reporting requirements 
                of the Health Care Financing Administration in effect 
                on such date of enactment, and
                    (C) the legal ability of such entities and 
                governments to acquire the required information.
            (2) Report.--The Secretary shall report to the Congress on 
        the results of the study described in paragraph (1) by not 
        later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act.
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