HR 817
108th Congress
House
Health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Mammography
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Nursing homes
Physicians
Assure Access to Mammography Act of 2003
Introduced: February 13, 2003
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4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 26, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 20, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2003
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.
Feb 13, 2003
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Assure Access to Mammography Act of 2003 - Provides that, with respect to payment for a screening or diagnostic mammography furnished to a Medicare beneficiary, the amount of payment made to a hospital-based facility in which such screening or diagnostic mammography is performed during the applicable period is equal to 200 percent of the amount of payment that would otherwise apply under the Medicare fee schedule established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the technical component of such screening or diagnostic mammography. Provides for not counting certain radiological residents against graduate medical education limitations.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Secretary on Medicare reimbursement for gender-specific services.
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to study and report to Congress on Medicare reimbursement for screening services.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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