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HR 1458 111th Congress House Health Digestive and metabolic diseases Drug therapy Health care costs and insurance Immunology and vaccination Medicare Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2009

Introduced: March 12, 2009 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 29, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 16, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 12, 2009
Referred to House Education and Labor
Mar 12, 2009
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Mar 12, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor, 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 12, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Mar 12, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2009 - Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to: (1) continue entitlement to prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to an individual who receives a kidney transplant for which payment is made under Medicare; and (2) extend Medicare secondary payer requirements for end stage renal disease (ESRD) beneficiaries.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare ) of SSA to apply special rules to kidney transplant recipients receiving additional coverage for immunosuppressive drugs. Deems such individual to be enrolled under Medicare part B and makes the individual responsible for the full amount of the applicable premiums. Applies deductible and coinsurance requirements to the provision of such drugs.

Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for group health plans to provide coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients.

What's happening now April 29, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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