Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2005

Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of home needle destruction devices and disposal of needles and lancets through a sharps-by-mail or similar program under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2841 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2841

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of home 
  needle destruction devices and the disposal of needles and lancets 
    through a sharps-by-mail or similar program under part D of the 
                           Medicare Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2005

Mr. Ferguson (for himself, Mr. Strickland, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Ryan of 
 Ohio, and Mr. Issa) 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 title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of home 
  needle destruction devices and the disposal of needles and lancets 
    through a sharps-by-mail or similar program under part D of the 
                           Medicare Program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Safe Needle Disposal 
Coverage Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF HOME NEEDLE DESTRUCTION DEVICES AND DISPOSAL OF 
              NEEDLES AND LANCETS THROUGH A SHARPS-BY-MAIL OR SIMILAR 
              PROGRAM UNDER MEDICARE PART D.

    (a) In General.--Section 1860D-2(e)(1)(B) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-102(e)(1)(B)) is amended by inserting after 
``regulations of the Secretary'' the following: ``and including devices 
approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration for the safe 
and effective destruction of needles and the disposal of needles and 
lancets through a sharps-by-mail or similar program as medically 
appropriate based on volume of usage''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2007.
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