[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1046 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1046

      To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
 reimbursement under the Medicare Program for all physicians' services 
furnished by doctors of chiropractic within the scope of their license.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 1999

 Mr. Watkins introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means, 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 
 reimbursement under the Medicare Program for all physicians' services 
furnished by doctors of chiropractic within the scope of their license.

    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 ``Chiropractic Patients' Freedom of 
Choice Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT FOR ALL PHYSICIANS' SERVICES 
              FURNISHED BY DOCTORS OF CHIROPRACTIC WITHIN THE SCOPE OF 
              THEIR LICENSE.

    (a) In General.--Clause (5) of section 1861(r) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(r)) is amended to read as follows: ``(5) 
a doctor of chiropractic who is licensed as such by the State and who 
meets uniform minimum standards promulgated by the Secretary, with 
respects to treatment by means of manual manipulation of the spine to 
correct a subluxation, and related diagnostic and therapeutic services 
as identified in subsection (s), but only with the respect to functions 
which he or she is legally authorized to perform by the State in which 
he or she performs such functions.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to services furnished on or after January 1, 2000.
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