Medicare Cancer Coverage Improvement Act of 1993

Summary

Medicare Cancer Coverage Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover: (1) any use of a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration in an anticancer chemotherapeutic regimen if such use has been published in select peer-review medical literature or included in one or more of three specified medical compendia; and (2) an oral form of a drug prescribed for anticancer use for a given indication if the drug contains the same active ingredients and indication as a drug that would be covered if administered as incident to a physician's service if the drug could not be self-administered. Requires a study and report to specified congressional committees by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Medicare coverage of patient care costs associated with clinical trials of new cancer therapies.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 April 1993

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 22 April 1993

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 22 April 1993

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