To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project to provide Medicare beneficiaries greater information with respect to various courses of treatment for certain diseases or injuries to enable the beneficiaries to make more informed decisions when selecting a course of treatment for the disease or injury.
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Apr 22, 1999)
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish specified demonstration projects designed to furnish a Medicare beneficiary diagnosed with a particular disease or injury informational videotapes before he or she elects a course of treatment for that disease or injury. Mandates that one project provide such a video on prostate enlargement.
Directs the Institute of Medicine to develop demonstrations of such videotapes.
What just happenedMay 6, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseApr 22, 1999
- May 6, 1999CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Apr 30, 1999CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Apr 22, 1999IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Apr 22, 1999IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.
- Apr 22, 1999IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.
Ways and Means Committee - Apr 22, 1999IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E742)
- Apr 22, 1999IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Apr 22, 1999IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House