Medicare Cancer Coverage Improvement Act of 1993
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Apr 21, 1993)
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.
What just happenedMay 12, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseApr 21, 1993
- May 12, 1993CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Apr 30, 1993CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Apr 21, 1993IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Ways and Means Committee - Apr 21, 1993IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Apr 21, 1993IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E992-994)
- Apr 21, 1993IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Apr 21, 1993IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House