HCONRES 245
111th Congress
House
Health
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.
Introduced: March 2, 2010
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4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 2, 2010
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 2, 2010
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.
Mar 2, 2010
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Mar 2, 2010
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Calls for: (1) the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that HHS programs, policies, and practices facilitate innovation of, and access to, medical devices that restore or improve intestinal or urinary system function of people in the United States with an ostomy; and (2) ostomy products to be recognized, categorized, covered, and reimbursed in a new payment category of prosthetic supplies, consistent with Medicare's current recognition of ostomy products as prosthetics.
What's happening now
Referred to House Ways and Means
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1