[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4778 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4778

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt negative 
pressure wound therapy pumps and related supplies and accessories from 
    the Medicare competitive acquisition program until the clinical 
            comparability of such products can be validated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2007

 Mr. Gonzalez 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 exempt negative 
pressure wound therapy pumps and related supplies and accessories from 
    the Medicare competitive acquisition program until the clinical 
            comparability of such products can be validated.

    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 Wound Therapy Patient 
Protection Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY PUMPS AND RELATED 
              SUPPLIES AND ACCESSORIES FROM THE MEDICARE COMPETITIVE 
              ACQUISITION PROGRAM UNTIL THE CLINICAL COMPARABILITY OF 
              SUCH PRODUCTS CAN BE VALIDATED.

    (a) In General.--Section 1847(a)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395w-3(a)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting before the period 
at the end the following: ``and excluding negative pressure wound 
therapy pumps and related supplies and accessories until such time as 
the Secretary can validate, using a panel of wound care clinical 
experts, the clinical comparability of all products included in the 
category of such products''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on March 31, 2008.
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