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Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act

Introduced: May 10, 2001 See on congress.gov
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May 24, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 22, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 10, 2001
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.
May 10, 2001
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish procedures for determining the basis for, and amount of, Medicare payment for any clinical diagnostic laboratory test with respect to which a new or substantially revised Health Care Financing Administration Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code is assigned on or after January 1, 2002; (2) set the national fee schedule amounts for tests performed; (3) establish a mechanism for review of the adequacy of payment amounts for a particular test; and (4) prohibit the Secretary from delegating the authority to make determinations with respect to clinical diagnostic laboratory tests to a regional office of the Health Care Financing Administration or to a certain contracted entity.

Prohibits the Secretary from assigning a code for a new clinical diagnostic laboratory test that differs from the code recommended by the American Medical Association Common Procedure Terminology Editorial Panel and results in lower payment than would be made if the Secretary accepted such recommendation solely on the basis that the test is a test that may be performed by a laboratory with a certificate of waiver under the Public Health Service Act.

What's happening now May 24, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Jun 12, 2001
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Jun 5, 2001
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1798: Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-1798/
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"H.R. 1798: Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-1798/.
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