[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 465 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 465

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


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2003

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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 2003''.

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)) 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)) 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, 2004.
                                 <all>