To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical equipment.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical equipment.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4491 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4491

To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
  reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical 
                               equipment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 2, 2004

 Mr. Hobson (for himself and Mr. Ford) introduced the following bill; 
  which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
  reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical 
                               equipment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPEAL OF REDUCTION IN MEDICARE PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN ITEMS OF 
              DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT.

    Paragraph (21) of section 1834(a) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395m(a)), as added by section 302(c)(2) of the Medicare 
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-173), is repealed.
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