[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1811 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1811

      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
promulgating any regulation, rule, or other order if the effect of such 
 regulation, rule, or order is to eliminate or modify any requirement 
under the medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
 for physician supervision of anesthesia services, as such requirement 
                  was in effect on December 31, 1997.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 23, 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 
promulgating any regulation, rule, or other order if the effect of such 
 regulation, rule, or order is to eliminate or modify any requirement 
under the medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
 for physician supervision of anesthesia services, as such requirement 
                  was in effect on December 31, 1997.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safer Seniors Medical Care Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION OF ANESTHESIA SERVICES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not promulgate any 
regulation, rule, or other order if the effect of such regulation, 
rule, or order is to eliminate or modify any requirement under the 
medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) for physician supervision of anesthesia services, 
as such requirement was in effect on December 31, 1997.
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