To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for uniform coverage of anticancer drugs under the medicare program, and for other purposes.
Medicare Cancer Coverage Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover: (1) any use of a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration in an anticancer chemotherapeutic regimen if such use has been published in select peer-review medical literature or included in one or more of three specified medical compendia; and (2) an oral form of a drug prescribed for anticancer use for a given indication if the drug contains the same active ingredients and indication as a drug that would be covered if administered as incident to a physician's service if the drug could not be self-administered.
Requires a study and report to specified congressional committees by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E992-994)
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
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