A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide low-income medicare beneficiaries with medical assistance for out-of-pocket expenditures for outpatient prescription drugs.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reduce payments to a State for a calendar quarter in a fiscal year to the extent that the Secretary determines that certain State expenditure levels for Medicare beneficiaries related to any State- funded prescription drug program or Medicare medical assistance provided under Medicare is less than the level of such expenditures under Medicare or Medicaid during FY 1999.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13605-13607)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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