[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2888 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2888

 To repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes and 
 inserts for individuals with diabetes effected by section 627 of the 
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2007

  Mrs. McCarthy of New York 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 repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes and 
 inserts for individuals with diabetes effected by section 627 of the 
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.

    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 Diabetic Footwear Quality 
Restoration Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF THE REDUCTION IN MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR ORTHOPEDIC 
              SHOES AND INSERTS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DIABETES.

    (a) In General.--Section 627(c) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) is 
amended by inserting ``, and before the date that is 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of the Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality 
Restoration Act of 2007'' after ``January 1, 2005''.
    (b) Conforming Law.--For items furnished on and after the date that 
is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the provisions 
of sections 1833(o), 1834(h)(4)(C), and 1842(s)(2) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(o), 1395m(h)(4)(C), 1395u(s)(2)) shall be 
restored as if the amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) of 
section 627 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) had not been enacted.
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