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S 1259 108th Congress Senate Health Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Medicare Social Welfare

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to…

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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.

Introduced: June 13, 2003 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Jun 13, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jun 13, 2003
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend the minimum Medicare claims filing deadlines to account for any delay in processing adjustments from secondary to primary payor status.
What's happening now June 13, 2003

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1259: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1259/
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"S. 1259: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1259/.
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S. 1259, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1259/.
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[S. 1259: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.](https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-1259/)
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