[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2429 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2429

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide an exception 
to the 60-day limit on Medicare reciprocal billing arrangements between 
  two physicians during the period in which one of the physicians is 
ordered to active duty as a member of a reserve component of the Armed 
                                Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2007

 Mr. Thompson of California (for himself and Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas) 
 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 title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide an exception 
to the 60-day limit on Medicare reciprocal billing arrangements between 
  two physicians during the period in which one of the physicians is 
ordered to active duty as a member of a reserve component of the Armed 
                                Forces.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO 60-DAY LIMIT ON MEDICARE RECIPROCAL BILLING 
              ARRANGEMENTS IN CASE OF PHYSICIANS ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY 
              IN THE ARMED FORCES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1842(b)(6)(D)(iii) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395u(b)(6)(D)(iii)) is amended by inserting after ``of 
more than 60 days'' the following: ``or are provided (before January 1, 
2008) over a longer continuous period during all of which the first 
physician has been called or ordered to active duty as a member of a 
reserve component of the Armed Forces''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to services furnished on or after the date of the enactment of 
this section.
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