To require a report on circumstances in which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be providing Medicare or Medicaid payments to, or otherwise funding, entities that process genome or exome data in the People's Republic of China or the Russian Federation.

SA 3998. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II of division B, insert
the following:
Sec. ___.  Not later than 90 days after the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall
submit a report to the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives, detailing the circumstances in
which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be
providing Medicare or Medicaid payments to, or otherwise
funding, entities that process genome or exome data in the
People's Republic of China or the Russian Federation. The
report shall outline the extent to which payments or other
funding have been provided to such entities over the past 5
years, including amounts paid to each entity, the
implications of such payments, including vulnerabilities, and
specific recommendations on steps to ensure that payments are
lawful and appropriate in the future. In developing the
report, the Secretary shall also coordinate with other
relevant agencies, as determined by the Secretary, to examine
the potential effect of allowing beneficiaries' genome or
exome data to be processed in the People's Republic of China
or the Russian Federation on United States national security,
United States intellectual property protections, HIPAA
privacy protections, future biomedical development
capabilities and competitiveness, and global competitiveness
for United States laboratories.
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