HR 3453
110th Congress
House
Health
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Law
Medical laboratories
Medicare
Small business
Social Welfare
Community Clinical Laboratory Fairness in Competition Act of 2007
Introduced: August 4, 2007
Introduced by:
Velázquez, Nydia M.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 14, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 4, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 4, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Small Business, 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.
Aug 4, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Community Clinical Laboratory Fairness in Competition Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the mandate for a Medicare Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project for Clinical Laboratory Services.
Amends federal civil service to subject the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services (solely with respect to its capacity to issue rules governing the Medicare part B fee schedule for clinical laboratory services) to the requirement to submit to a small business advocacy review panel for comment any proposed rule which will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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