S 1066
111th Congress
Senate
Health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2009
Introduced: May 18, 2009
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 18, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 18, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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