Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act

Summary

Medicare Patient Access to Preventive and Diagnostic Tests Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish procedures for determining the basis for, and amount of, Medicare payment for any clinical diagnostic laboratory test with respect to which a new or substantially revised Health Care Financing Administration Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code is assigned on or after January 1, 2002; (2) set the national fee schedule amounts for tests performed; (3) establish a mechanism for review of the adequacy of payment amounts for a particular test; and (4) prohibit the Secretary from delegating the authority to make determinations with respect to clinical diagnostics laboratory tests to a regional office of the Health Care Financing Administration or to a certain contracted entity. Prohibits the Secretary from establishing a payment level for a new test that is lower than the level for an existing, clinically similar test solely on the basis that the new test may be performed by a laboratory with a certificate of waiver under the Public Health Services Act.

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Timeline

1. 20 June 2001

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6519-6521)

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2. 20 June 2001

   Introduced

   Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6519)

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 20 June 2001

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Sponsors

• Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] · D · Cosponsor
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