[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 133 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 133

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify the use of 
the national coverage determination process under the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2023

 Mr. Buchanan (for himself, Ms. Barragan, and Ms. Salazar) 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 clarify the use of 
the national coverage determination process under the Medicare program.

    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 ``Mandating Exclusive Review of 
Individual Treatments (MERIT) Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION ON MEDICARE NATIONAL COVERAGE DETERMINATION 
              PROCESS.

    Section 1862(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395y(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For purposes 
of paragraph (1)(E), in the case of research conducted pursuant to 
section 1142, the determination of whether a drug or biological is 
reasonable and necessary to carry out the purposes of section 1142 
shall be made with respect to each drug or biological involved and not 
with respect to a class of drugs or biologicals.''.
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