H.Con.Res. 245 · 111th Congress
Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands…
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Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.
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Calls for: (1) the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that HHS programs, policies, and practices facilitate innovation of, and access to, medical devices that restore or improve intestinal or urinary system function of people in the United States with an ostomy; and (2) ostomy products to be recognized, categorized,…
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 2, 2010
Calls for: (1) the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that HHS programs, policies, and practices facilitate innovation of, and access to, medical devices that restore or improve intestinal or urinary system function of people in the United States with an ostomy; and (2) ostomy products to be recognized, categorized, covered, and reimbursed in a new payment category of prosthetic supplies, consistent with Medicare's current recognition of ostomy products as prosthetics.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
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Official title: Recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.
Latest action (Mar 2, 2010): Referred to House Ways and Means
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 2, 2010
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No recorded floor vote found.