Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

The following bills were introduced in the Senate:

S. 1716. A bill to provide emergency health care relief for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and for other purposes. Introduced Sept. 15 by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

S. 1722. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program, and for other purposes. Introduced Sept. 19 by Sen. Patty Murkowski (D-WA) and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

The following bills were introduced in the House:

H.R. 3735. A bill to prevent a reduction in the Medicaid Federal medical assistance percentage determined for a State for fiscal year 2006. Introduced Sept. 13 by Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3757. A bill to amend titles XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for health opportunity accounts under the Medicaid Program. Introduced Sept. 13 by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3800. A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend for 1 year the qualified individual program of Medicare cost-sharing assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries. Introduced Sept. 15 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3795. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to modify the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services in order to recognize speech-language pathologists as suppliers under the Medicare Program. Introduced Sept. 15 by Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3845. A bill to set at 90 percent the Federal medical assistance percentage and the enhanced FMAP for medical and child health assistance provided in States highly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and to Katrina Hurricane evacuees in other States during fiscal year 2006 under the Medicaid Program and SCHIP. Introduced Sept. 21 by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

H.R. 3854. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to facilitating the development of microbicides for preventing transmission of HIV and other diseases, and for other purposes. Introduced Sept. 21 by Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.