[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4479 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4479

To provide for coverage of augmentative communication devices under the 
                           Medicare Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2000

 Mr. Cunningham (for himself, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Packard, Mr. Coyne, Mr. 
 Frost, Mrs. Meek of Florida, and Mr. Berman) 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 provide for coverage of augmentative communication devices 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. CHANGE IN MEDICARE NATIONAL COVERAGE DETERMINATION WITH 
              RESPECT TO AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICES.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall promulgate, within 
60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a national 
coverage determination under title XVIII of the Social Security Act in 
order to mandate coverage under the medicare program of augmentative 
communication devices (also known as alternative communication devices) 
for individuals with a severe speech disability.
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