A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government Medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if the State uses a portion of those funds for programs to reduce the use of tobacco products and to assist in the economic diversification of tobacco farming communities
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicaid; Claims administration; Tobacco industry; Law and legislation; Products liability; Tobacco; Structured settlements; Tobacco use; Crop diversification; Tobacco farms; United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services; United States
Other titles: 106th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 1232 in the House of Representatives.; To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government Medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if the State uses a portion of those funds for programs to reduce the use of tobacco products and to assist in the economic diversification of tobacco farming communities.
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Introduced Mar. 23, 1999; referred to the Committee on Commerce.