[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 554 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 554

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 15, 2001

Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. 
Cochran, and Mr. Chafee) introduced the following bill; which was read 
             twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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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.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1861(s)(2) of the Social Security 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(s)(2)), as amended by section 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--
                    (A) in subparagraph (U), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (V), by inserting ``and'' at 
                the end; and
                    (C) 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);''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
        section 1861(s)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1395x(s)(2)), as amended by section 112 of the Medicare, 
        Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 
        2000 (as so enacted), are each amended by inserting ``, except 
        for any biological described in subparagraph (W),'' after 
        ``which''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to biologicals furnished on or after January 1, 2002.
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