To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a plan for changing the numerical identifier used to identify Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.

SA 2196. Mr. DURBIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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him to the bill H.R. 3010, making appropriations for the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

After section 221, insert the following:
Sec. 222. Not later than June 30, 2006, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall prepare and submit to
Congress a report outlining--
(1) a detailed plan for expeditiously changing the
numerical identifier used to identify medicare beneficiaries
under the medicare program so that a beneficiary's social
security account number is no longer displayed on the
identification card issued to the beneficiary under such
program or on any explanation of medicare benefits mailed to
the beneficiary; and
(2) the costs of implementing such plan.
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