[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5464 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5464

 To amend section 4531(c) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to permit 
payment for ALS intercept services furnished in areas other than rural 
      areas and other than through a volunteer ambulance service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 25, 2002

  Mr. Platts 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 section 4531(c) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to permit 
payment for ALS intercept services furnished in areas other than rural 
      areas and other than through a volunteer ambulance service.

    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 ``Medicare Paramedic Intercept 
Services Coverage Expansion Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF COVERAGE OF MEDICARE PARAMEDIC INTERCEPT SERVICES.

    (a) Expansion of Payment Areas.--
            (1) In general.--Section 4531(c) of the Balanced Budget Act 
        of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1395x(s)(7) note, 111 Stat. 452) is 
        amended--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by 
                striking ``in a rural area'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``are provided 
                under a contract with one or more volunteer ambulance 
                services and'';
                    (C) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (D) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2).
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The heading of such section is 
        amended by striking ``in Rural Communities''.
    (b) Payments Not Counted in Computing Ambulance Fee Schedule.--
Payments attributable to the amendment made by subsection (a)(1) shall 
not be taken into account in determining an aggregate amount of 
payments under section 1834(l)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395m(l)(3)(A)).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section apply with 
respect to services furnished on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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