[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2587 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2587

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust the amount of 
   payment under the physician fee schedule for drug administration 
             services furnished to medicare beneficiaries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2004

Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mrs. Hutchison) 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 adjust the amount of 
   payment under the physician fee schedule for drug administration 
             services furnished to medicare beneficiaries.

    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 ``Ensuring Quality and Access to 
Cancer Care Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. TRANSITIONAL ADJUSTMENT TO PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE FOR DRUG 
              ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FURNISHED TO MEDICARE 
              BENEFICIARIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 303(a)(4)(B)(ii) of the Medicare 
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2237) is amended by striking ``3 percent'' and 
inserting ``32 percent''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of section 303(a)(4) of the 
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2237).
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