H.R. 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

H.R. 6331 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary

To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. (by CRS)

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Title

To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.

Other Titles

• Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
• Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
• Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
• Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Sponsor

Charles Rangel

Co-Sponsors

• John Dingell

Subjects

• Health policy
• Access to health care
• Accreditation (Medical care)
• Administrative remedies
• Adoption
• Afghanistan
• Aged
• Aid to dependent children
• Ambulances
• Ambulatory care
• Anesthetics
• Annuities
• Appropriations
• Armed forces
• Armed forces reserves
• Barbiturates
• Brain
• Budgets
• Business
• California
• Capitation (Medical care)
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Case management
• Case mix (Medical care)
• Cash welfare block grants
• Children
• Chronically ill
• Civil rights
• Clinical trials
• Clinics
• Coinsurance
• Collection of accounts
• Communication in medicine
• Communications
• Community health services
• Competitive bidding
• Conflict of interests
• Congregate housing
• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Criminal justice
• Defense policy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Diabetes
• Discrimination in medical care
• District of Columbia
• Drugs
• Education
• Electronic data interchange
• Electronic government information
• Estates (Law)
• Executive departments
• Families
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Federal-state relations
• Finance
• Foster home care
• Genetics
• Gifts
• Government information
• Government procurement
• Government trust funds
• Governmental investigations
• Group medical practice
• Head injuries
• Health education
• Health information systems
• Health insurance
• Health maintenance organizations
• Hearing
• Higher education
• Hospital rates
• Hospitals
• Housing
• Imaging systems in medicine
• Indian medical care
• Inspectors general
• Insurance premiums
• Iraq
• Iraq compilation
• Judicial review
• Kidney diseases
• Language and languages
• Law
• Life insurance
• Living wills
• Long-term care
• Lung diseases
• Managed care
• Marketing
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical economics
• Medical education
• Medical ethics
• Medical fees
• Medical laboratories
• Medical personnel
• Medical records
• Medical savings accounts
• Medical statistics
• Medical supplies
• Medical tests
• Medically uninsured
• Medicare
• Medicine
• Medigap
• Mental depression
• Mental health services
• Middle East and North Africa
• Military occupation
• Military operations
• Minorities
• Minority health
• Nuclear medicine
• Nursing homes
• Obesity
• Oxygen
• Pensions
• Performance measurement
• Pharmacies
• Physical examinations
• Physicians
• Politics and government
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Prescription pricing
• Preventive medicine
• Psychiatry
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotropic drugs
• Public contracts
• Quality of care
• Rural affairs
• Rural health
• Sexual abstinence
• South Asia
• Speech disorders
• Standards
• State and local government
• Subsidies
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Telemedicine
• Terminal care
• Terrorism
• Translating and interpreting
• Transportation
• Veterans
• Veterans' medical care
• Welfare
• Welfare eligibility
• Women
• Women's health

Related Bills

• H.R. 748 (110^th) : Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007
• H.R. 6212 (110^th) : Medicare Efficiency and Development of Improvement of Care and Services Act (MEDICS Act) of 2008
• H.R. 6252 (110^th) : Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Acquisition Reform Act of 2008
• S. 45 (110^th) : A Bill to Amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to Make a Technical Correction in the Definition of Outpatient Speech-Language Pathology Services.
• S. 450 (110^th) : Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007
• S. 1310 (110^th) : Medicare Ambulance Payment Extension Act
• S. 2408 (110^th) : Medicare Electronic Medication and Safety Protection (E-MEDS) Act of 2007
• S. 3095 (110^th) : Relief for Rural Veterans in Crisis Act of 2008
• S. 3101 (110^th) : Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
• S. 3144 (110^th) : Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Acquisition Reform Act of 2008

Major Actions

Introduced	6/20/2008
Referred to Committee
Passed House	6/24/2008
Passed Senate	7/09/2008
Vetoed by President	7/15/2008
Passed House	7/15/2008
Senate	7/15/2008

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	House	On Passage - House - H.R. 6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - Under Suspension of the Rules	6/24/2008	This bill PASSED the House 355 voted YES 59 voted NO 20 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6331)	6/27/2008	This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate 58 voted YES 40 voted NO 2 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.	7/09/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Upon Reconsideration, Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6331	7/09/2008	This motion PASSED the Senate 69 voted YES 30 voted NO 1 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	Veto Override - House - H.R. 6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act	7/15/2008	This bill PASSED the House 383 voted YES 41 voted NO 11 voted present/not voting
currently selected	Senate	Veto Override - Senate - H.R. 6331	7/15/2008	This bill the Senate 70 voted YES 26 voted NO 4 voted present/not voting

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	6/20/2008
		6/20/2008	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
		6/20/2008	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
		6/20/2008	Referred to House Ways and Means
		6/24/2008	Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
		6/24/2008	Mr. Pallone moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
		6/24/2008	Considered under suspension of the rules.
		6/24/2008	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6331.
select this vote	House Vote on Passage	6/24/2008	On Passage - House - H.R. 6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - Under Suspension of the Rules
	Put on a legislative calendar	6/25/2008	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 836.
		6/26/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
		6/26/2008	Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
		6/26/2008	Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked [Record Vote Number 160] entered in Senate.
		6/26/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
		6/26/2008	Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 836.
select this vote	Vote	6/27/2008	On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6331)
		7/09/2008	Motion to proceed to the motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Record Vote Number 160) agreed to in Senate.
		7/09/2008	Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Record Vote Number 160) agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		7/09/2008	Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		7/09/2008	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
select this vote	Senate Vote on Passage	7/09/2008	Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
		7/09/2008	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
	Presented to President	7/09/2008	Cleared for White House.
select this vote	Vote	7/09/2008	Upon Reconsideration, Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 6331
	Presented to President	7/10/2008	Presented to President.
	Vetoed	7/15/2008	Vetoed by President.
		7/15/2008	Veto message received in Senate. Ordered held at the desk.
		7/15/2008	Veto Message considered in Senate.
		7/15/2008	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
	Enacted	7/15/2008	Became Public Law No: 110-275.
		7/15/2008	The Chair laid before the House the veto message from the President.
		7/15/2008	DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the question of passage, the objections of the President to the contrary, notwithstanding.
		7/15/2008	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on passage, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding, and pursuant to the rule the yeas and nays were ordered. The Chair announced that further proceedings on the question would resume at a time to be announced.
		7/15/2008	The Chair announced the unfinished business to be the consideration of the veto.
select this vote	House Vote on Passage	7/15/2008	Veto Override - House - H.R. 6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act
currently selected	Senate Vote on Passage	7/15/2008	Veto Override - Senate - H.R. 6331

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