[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20220]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            AMENDING TITLE XVIII OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent the Finance Committee be discharged 
from further consideration of H.R. 2429 and the Senate then proceed to 
its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (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.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time, 
passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no 
intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 2429) was ordered to a third reading, was read the 
third time, and passed.

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