[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5251 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5251

 To provide for Medicare payment for medically unsupervised certified 
 registered nurse anesthetists at the same level as nurse anesthetists 
    who are medically supervised if the Medicare regulations permit 
certified registered nurse anesthetists to provide anesthesia services 
     in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers without medical 
                              supervision.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2000

  Mr. Burr of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for Medicare payment for medically unsupervised certified 
 registered nurse anesthetists at the same level as nurse anesthetists 
    who are medically supervised if the Medicare regulations permit 
certified registered nurse anesthetists to provide anesthesia services 
     in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers without medical 
                              supervision.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF INCENTIVE TO INCREASE MEDICARE PAYMENT LEVEL 
              FOR UNSUPERVISED CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS.

    If the Secretary of Health and Human Services changes medicare 
regulations under title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit 
certified registered nurse anesthetists to furnish anesthesia services 
in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers without medical 
supervision, then, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
level of payment for anesthesia services furnished by a certified 
registered nurse anesthetist who is not medically supervised in such a 
hospital or center shall be the same as the level of payment for such 
services furnished by the anesthetist in such a facility when the 
anesthetist is medically supervised.
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