S 2957 · 106th Congress · Health
Medicare Self-Administered Medications Act of 2000
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7849)(2000-07-27)
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Medicare Self-Administered Medications Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the definition of covered non-self-administered drugs and biologicals. Replaces the current definition of drugs and biologicals which cannot, as determined in accordance with regulations, be self-administered with a definition of drugs and biologicals for which the usual method of administration is not patient self-administration or, in the case of injectable drugs and biologicals, for which the physician determines that self-administration is not medically appropriate (thus covering such drugs and biologicals which a patient may, all the same, self-administer).…
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