A bill to amend the applicable provisions of the Social Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to assure that any individual who is eligible to receive eye or vision care services or foot care services which are covered under such a program will be effectively guaranteed the right to select a person licensed to practice medicine, osteopathy, optometry or podiatry to render such services for which he is legally authorized to perform.

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Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance), V (Maternal and Child Health), XVI (Supplemental Security Income), XVIII (Medicare), and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act as pertains to health maintenance organizations, to permit an individual who is eligible to receive visual or foot care services the choice of selecting a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, optometry, or podiatry.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 May 1981

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