Jim Ramstad: “I urge my colleagues to consider this bill carefully and join me in seeking to extend these cost-savings and health…”

This bill will correct a number of complex but significant problems that currently plague HCFA's coverage, coding and payment systems.

I would just remind my friend from New Jersey that this is not a joke to many low-income families. Under the motion brought here today, the same low-income families who would benefit from the increased refundability of the child credit…

I am introducing 'The Medicare Patient Access to Technology Act' to make targeted adjustments in the technical methods and systems that Medicare uses to adopt and pay for new medical products.

I am pleased that HCFA is attempting to address the problems associated with its process for making national coverage decisions for new technologies.