Medicare Pacemaker Payment Reform and Patient Protection Act

Summary

Medicare Pacemaker Payment Reform and Patient Protection Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to reduce the reimbursement: (1) for new cardiac pacemakers by 15 percent; (2) for replacement cardiac pacemakers by 25 percent; and (3) for payments to physicians for cardiac pacemaker implantations and monitoring by 25 percent. Prohibits coverage for the expenses, in any 12 month period, of routine monitoring of a cardiac pacemaker or pacemaker lead in excess of six transtelephonic monitorings, or in excess of four monitorings at a physician's office. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads for which payment under title XVIII was made. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on diagnosis-related group type reimbursement for physicians' services related to cardiac pacemaker device implantation.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 18 July 1983

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