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Medicare Hospice Benefit Amendments of 1996

Introduced: June 25, 1996 See on congress.gov

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Jul 10, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

Jun 25, 1996

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.

Jun 25, 1996

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Hospice Benefit Amendments of 1996 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to hospice care to: (1) restructure the hospice care benefit period; (2) cover ambulance services, diagnostic tests, and anticancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy services; (3) permit contracting with independent physicians or physician groups for hospice care services; (4) allow waiver of certain staffing requirements for hospice care programs in non-urbanized areas; (5) define coverage denial, with respect to the limitation on the liability of beneficiaries and providers, to mean a determination that an individual is not terminally ill; and (6) extend the period for physician certification of an individual's terminal illness.

What's happening now July 10, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

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