[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4901 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4901

   To require that any reductions in payment rates for Medicare home 
 respiratory medication nebulizer drugs be offset by an equal increase 
in reimbursement for home respiratory medication professional services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2002

  Mr. Towns 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 require that any reductions in payment rates for Medicare home 
 respiratory medication nebulizer drugs be offset by an equal increase 
in reimbursement for home respiratory medication professional services.

    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 ``Home Respiratory Medication Patient 
Protection Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. OFFSETTING MEDICARE PAYMENT REDUCTIONS FOR HOME RESPIRATORY 
              MEDICATION NEBULIZER DRUGS BY INCREASES IN REIMBURSEMENT 
              FOR HOME RESPIRATORY MEDICATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
effects a reduction in payment rates for home respiratory medication 
nebulizer drugs under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 
the Secretary shall provide for an increase in the payment rates for 
home respiratory medication professional services under such part in a 
manner so that the aggregate additional payments resulting from such 
payment increase are designed to be equal to, and offset, the aggregate 
decrease in payments resulting from such payment reduction.
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