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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1679

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to accelerate the 
reduction in the amount of beneficiary copayment liability for medicare 
                          outpatient services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 13, 2001

  Mr. Conrad introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to accelerate the 
reduction in the amount of beneficiary copayment liability for medicare 
                          outpatient services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Beneficiary Liability 
Reduction Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. ACCELERATING THE RATE OF REDUCTION OF BENEFICIARY COPAYMENT 
              LIABILITY UNDER THE MEDICARE HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT 
              DEPARTMENT PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM.

    Section 1833(t)(8)(C)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395l(t)(8)(C)(ii)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (v), by striking ``and thereafter''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subclauses:
                                    ``(VI) For procedures performed in 
                                2007, 35 percent.
                                    ``(VII) For procedures performed in 
                                2008, 30 percent.
                                    ``(VIII) For procedures performed 
                                in 2009, 25 percent.
                                    ``(IX) For procedures performed in 
                                2010 and thereafter, 20 percent.''.
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