[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1089 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1089

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand medicare 
             coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2001

 Ms. Dunn (for herself, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Pickering, Mrs. Capps, Mr. 
Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. Crane, Mr. Portman, Mr. English, Mr. Dicks, Mr. 
   Hastings of Washington, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Smith of 
  Washington, Mr. Baird, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mrs. Roukema, Mrs. 
  Kelly, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Baker, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Paul, Mr. Moore, Mr. 
 Baldacci, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. 
 Allen, Mr. Deutsch, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wexler, 
Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Wynn, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Dooley of California, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Kleczka, 
 Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Cunningham, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Frost, Ms. 
 Carson of Indiana, Mr. Coyne, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Ehrlich, Mr. Taylor of 
 Mississippi, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Shows) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 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 expand medicare 
             coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.

    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 ``Access to Innovation for Medicare 
Patients Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. MEDICARE COVERAGE OF SELF-INJECTED BIOLOGICALS.

    (a) Coverage.--Section 1861(s)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395x(s)(2)), as amended by sections 102(a) and 105(a) of the 
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act 
of 2000, as enacted into law by section 1(a)(6) of Public Law 106-554, 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (U);
            (2) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (V); 
        and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(W) a self-injected biological (which is approved by the 
        Food and Drug Administration) that is prescribed as a complete 
        replacement for a drug or biological that would otherwise be 
        described in subparagraph (A) or (B);''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to biologicals furnished on or after January 1, 2002.
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