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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Anesthetics</title>
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  <updated>2008-07-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-14:/action/166449</id>
    <updated>2008-07-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 14, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-275.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Vetoed: H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-14:/action/166176</id>
    <updated>2008-07-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 14, 2008: Vetoed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-09:/action/166175</id>
    <updated>2008-07-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 09, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-08:/action/165582</id>
    <updated>2008-07-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 08, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6331 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6331/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-19:/action/161720</id>
    <updated>2008-06-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3118 Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3118/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-10:/action/159877</id>
    <updated>2008-06-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to preserve beneficiary access to care by preventing a reduction in the Medicare physician fee schedule, to improve the quality of care by advancing value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and to maintain and improve access to care in rural areas, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6212 Medicare Efficiency and Development of Improvement of Care and Services Act (MEDICS Act) of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6212/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-08:/action/159478</id>
    <updated>2008-06-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3101 Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3101/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-05:/action/159420</id>
    <updated>2008-06-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2056 Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2056/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-16:/action/129315</id>
    <updated>2007-09-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3442 Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3442/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-02:/action/127474</id>
    <updated>2007-08-02T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3066 To permit pass-through payment for reasonable costs of certified registered nurse anesthetist services in critical access hospitals notwithstanding the reclassification of such hospitals as urban hospitals, including hospitals located in &quot;Lugar counties&quot;, and for on-call and standby costs for such services.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3066/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-16:/action/122873</id>
    <updated>2007-07-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To permit pass-through payment for reasonable costs of certified registered nurse anesthetist services in critical access hospitals notwithstanding the reclassification of such hospitals as urban hospitals, including hospitals located in &quot;Lugar counties&quot;, and for on-call and standby costs for such services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2053 Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2053/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-25:/action/110012</id>
    <updated>2007-04-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1932 Medicare Academic Anesthesiology and CRNA Payment Improvement Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1932/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-17:/action/108795</id>
    <updated>2007-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for improved payments under the Medicare Program for academic anesthesiology programs for resident physicians and for academic programs for student registered nurse anesthetists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1866 Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1866/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-16:/action/108426</id>
    <updated>2007-04-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide payment under part A of the Medicare Program on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payments are provided for anesthesia services furnished by anesthesiologist assistants and certified registered nurse anesthetists in such hospitals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1200 American Health Security Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1200/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-02-26:/action/94281</id>
    <updated>2007-02-26T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.356 Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s356/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-01-21:/action/91511</id>
    <updated>2007-01-21T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6099 Abortion Pain bill</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h6099/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-09-18:/action/38384</id>
    <updated>2006-09-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2990 Medicare Teaching Anesthesiology Funding Restoration Act of 2006</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-s2990/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-22:/action/48044</id>
    <updated>2006-05-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5348 Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2006</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5348/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-09:/action/49002</id>
    <updated>2006-05-09T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5246 Medicare Teaching Anesthesiology Funding Restoration Act of 2006</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5246/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-04-26:/action/50139</id>
    <updated>2006-04-26T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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