H.R. 1544106th CongressHouse Bill

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish specified demonstration projects designed to furnish a Medicare beneficiary…

Official title: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project to provide Medicare beneficiaries greater information with respect to various courses of treatment for certain diseases or injuries to enable the beneficiaries to make more informed decisions when selecting a course of treatment for the disease or injury.

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Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish specified demonstration projects designed to furnish a Medicare beneficiary diagnosed with a particular disease or injury informational videotapes before he or she elects a course of treatment for that disease or injury. Mandates that one project provide such a video on prostate enlargement. Directs the Institute of Medicine to develop demonstrations of such videotapes.

Introduced Apr 22, 1999
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Fortney Stark

Democrat

U.S. Representative · CA-13

1 cosponsor — all Democrat

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