To extend the filing deadline for certain Medicare claims to account for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for one year the filing deadline for Medicare claims for items and services furnished between January 1, 1987, and August 10, 1993, to account for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary to primary payor status.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1045 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1045

 To extend the filing deadline for certain Medicare claims to account 
 for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to 
                         primary payor status.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2005

 Mr. Costello introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, 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 extend the filing deadline for certain Medicare claims to account 
 for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to 
                         primary payor status.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENDING THE FILING DEADLINE FOR CERTAIN MEDICARE CLAIMS TO 
              ACCOUNT FOR A DELAY IN PROCESSING ADJUSTMENTS FROM 
              SECONDARY TO PRIMARY PAYOR STATUS.

    (a) Extension of Claims Filing Period.--Notwithstanding sections 
1814(a)(1) and 1835(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395f(a)(1), 1395n(a)(1)), claims described in subsection (b) may also 
be filed under parts A and B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
during the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
    (b) Claims Described.--For purposes of subsection (a), a claim 
described in this subsection is a claim for items and services that are 
furnished--
            (1) on or after January 1, 1987, and before August 10, 
        1993; and
            (2) to an individual during the period beginning on the 
        date the individual's status under section 1862(b)(2) of the 
        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395y(b)(2)) changes from having 
        a group health plan that is a primary plan to no longer having 
        such a plan that is a primary plan and ending on the date of 
        completion of the change of status.
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