Title: Medicare IVIG Demonstration Extension Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Medicare IVIG Demonstration Extension Act of 2017
This bill amends the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 to extend the Medicare Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) demonstration project through 2020, subject to the availability of funds. (This demonstration project provides for bundled Medicare payments with respect to certain items and services that are necessary to administer IVIG in the home.) A Medicare beneficiary who is enrolled in the project on September 30, 2017, shall be automatically reenrolled, subject to an existing cap on project participants.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3172 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3172

   To amend the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and 
  Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 to extend the Medicare Patient IVIG 
                     Access Demonstration Project.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2017

    Mr. Brady of Texas (for himself and Ms. Matsui) introduced the 
   following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening Medicare and 
  Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 to extend the Medicare Patient IVIG 
                     Access Demonstration Project.

    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 IVIG Demonstration 
Extension Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MEDICARE PATIENT IVIG ACCESS DEMONSTRATION 
              PROJECT.

    Section 101(b) of the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthening 
Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 1395l note) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ``for a period of 
        3 years'' the following: ``and, subject to the availability of 
        funds under subsection (g)--
                    ``(A) if the date of enactment of the Medicare IVIG 
                Demonstration Extension Act of 2017 is on or before 
                September 30, 2017, for the period beginning on October 
                1, 2017, and ending on December 31, 2020; and
                    ``(B) if the date of enactment of such Act is after 
                September 30, 2017, for the period beginning on the 
                date of enactment of such Act and ending on December 
                31, 2020''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following 
        new sentence: ``Subject to the preceding sentence, a Medicare 
        beneficiary enrolled in the demonstration project on September 
        30, 2017, shall be automatically enrolled during the period 
        beginning on the date of the enactment of the Medicare IVIG 
        Demonstration Extension Act of 2017 and ending on December 31, 
        2020, without submission of another application.''.
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