CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES

Bills and resolutions

Diseases: tribute for demonstration project to assess quality of care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy (see H. Res. 261), H2978 [4MY]

Health care facilities: extend compliance threshold used to determine eligibility of hospitals for designation as an inpatient rehabilitation facility (see S. 1405), S8301 [14JY] (see H.R. 3373), H6326 [21JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: improve implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit for individuals who are both Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (see S. 1822), S11130 [5OC]

Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): ensure the provision of services to frail elders living in rural areas (see S. 1067), S5437 [18MY]

Letters

Adult day health care in California: Senators Feinstein and Boxer, S14151 [20DE]

———several members of the California congressional delegation, S14151 [20DE]

Tribute to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for demonstration project to assess quality of care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), E2115 [18OC]

———Representative Thomas, Committee on Ways and Means (House), E2115 [18OC]

Remarks in House

Diseases: tribute for demonstration project to assess quality of care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy (H. Res. 261), H8683-H8685 [6OC], E1562 [21JY], E1732 [29JY]

Health care facilities: extend compliance threshold used to determine eligibility of hospitals for designation as an inpatient rehabilitation facility (H.R. 3373), E1563 [21JY]

———prohibit funding to implement rule on critical access hospital replacement facility construction, H5122, H5123 [24JN]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: reduce administrative costs, S11756 [24OC]

Health care facilities: extend compliance threshold used to determine eligibility of hospitals for designation as an inpatient rehabilitation facility (S. 1405), S8318 [14JY]

Medicaid: contain costs of prescription drug program, S2145 [7MR]

———require Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to post public notification of State waivers, S12326 [3NO]

Medicare: provide for the production of a corrected ``Medicare and You'' handbook, S11881, S11905 [26OC]

———repeal outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps, S14159, S14160 [20DE]

Medicare/Medicaid: improve implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit for individuals who are both Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, S12202-S12207 [2NO], S12309 [3NO]

———improve implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit for individuals who are both Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (S. 1822), S11139 [5OC], S11853-S11855 [26OC]

Statements

Deficit Reduction Act Provisions Relative to Medicaid Benefits, S14117 [20DE], S14211 [21DE]

Texts of

H. Res. 261, tribute to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demonstration project to assess quality of care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, H8683 [6OC]