[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 3091 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3091

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2008

 Mr. Coburn (for himself, Mr. Martinez, and Mr. Casey) 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 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 2008''.

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 June 30, 2008.
    (c) Sense of the Senate Regarding Fiscal Responsibility.--It is the 
sense of the Senate that the amendment made by subsection (a) should be 
deficit neutral over the 5-year period beginning on October 1, 2008, 
through appropriate offsets.
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