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HR 2443 111th Congress House Health Emergency medical services and trauma care Medicare Rural conditions and development

Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009

Introduced: May 14, 2009 Introduced by: Neal, Richard E. Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 15, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 14, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
May 14, 2009
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.
May 14, 2009
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
May 14, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1158)
May 14, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% permanently the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished on or after January 1, 2010, in rural and urban areas.

Makes permanent the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, (and beyond January 1, 2010) for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.

What's happening now May 15, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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