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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 See on congress.gov
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 March 2, 2010

Referred to House Ways and Means

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Jul 29, 2010
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 245: Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HCONRES-245/
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"H. Con. Res. 245: Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HCONRES-245/.
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H. Con. Res. 245, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HCONRES-245/.
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[H. Con. Res. 245: Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.](https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HCONRES-245/)
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