S.Amdt. 1123
What it does: Adds SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE PRESERVATION OF BENEFICIARY CHOICES UNDER MEDICAREADVANTAGE; ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS at the end of subtitle B of title IV
Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH)What it changes
1 change to S. 1 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE PRESERVATION OF BENEFICIARY CHOICES UNDER MEDICAREADVANTAGE; ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS at the end of subtitle B of title IV
Adds a sectionIn S. 1 · Reported to Senate
(b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection (a). The report shall include recommendations regarding the use of more current data in computing geographic cost of practice indices as well as the use of data directly representative of physicians' costs (rather than proxy measures of such costs).
Inserted: SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE PRESERVATION OF BENEFICIARY CHOICES UNDER MEDICAREADVANTAGE; ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS.
Inserted: (a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that medicare beneficiaries should have a choice among multiple types of health plans under the MedicareAdvantage program, including regional preferred provider organizations and local health maintenance organization plans in markets where such plans naturally occur.
Inserted: (b) Establishment of Standards.--The Secretary shall establish standards with respect to the participation of private health plans in the MedicareAdvantage program under part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-21 et seq.) that--
Inserted: (1) encourage fair competition among such plans;
Inserted: (2) ensure that beneficiaries who desire to elect health benefits coverage under such a plan are provided with benefits that are actuarially equivalent to the benefits provided under other beneficiary options for health benefits coverage available under the medicare program; and
Inserted: (3) equally apply incentives to promote health plan participation to all plans desiring to participate in the MedicareAdvantage program.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle B of title IV, add the following:
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As printed
SA 1123. Mr. DeWINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program and to strengthen and improve the Medicare program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle B of title IV, add the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE PRESERVATION OF BENEFICIARY CHOICES UNDER MEDICAREADVANTAGE; ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS.
(a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that medicare beneficiaries should have a choice among multiple types of health plans under the MedicareAdvantage program, including regional preferred provider organizations and local health maintenance organization plans in markets where such plans naturally occur.
(b) Establishment of Standards.--The Secretary shall establish standards with respect to the participation of private health plans in the MedicareAdvantage program under part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-21 et seq.) that--
(1) encourage fair competition among such plans;
(2) ensure that beneficiaries who desire to elect health benefits coverage under such a plan are provided with benefits that are actuarially equivalent to the benefits provided under other beneficiary options for health benefits coverage available under the medicare program; and
(3) equally apply incentives to promote health plan participation to all plans desiring to participate in the MedicareAdvantage program.
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Senate amendment submitted
June 26, 2003