Medicare Cancer Clinical Trial Coverage Act of 1999
Official title: A bill to establish a demonstration project to study and provide coverage of routine patient care costs for medicare beneficiaries with cancer who are enrolled in an approved clinical trial program.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Medicare Cancer Clinical Trial Coverage Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project which provides for payment under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act of routine patient care costs for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer who are enrolled in an approved clinical trial program, while still applying the beneficiary cost sharing provisions of such program to project participants.
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the impact on Medicare of covering such costs as well as the cost of extending routine patient care coverage to Medicare beneficiaries with a diagnosis other than cancer.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 784: Medicare Cancer Clinical Trial Coverage Act of 1999. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-784/
"S. 784: Medicare Cancer Clinical Trial Coverage Act of 1999." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-784/.
S. 784, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-784/.
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