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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to adjust the fee for collecting specimens for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under the Medicare Program.

3/13/2007--Introduced.

Medicare Laboratory Services Access Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to fee schedules for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and the Medicare laboratory specimen collection fee. Sets such fee at $6.07 for 2008, and the same adjusted for inflation in subsequent years, to cover the appropriate cost of collecting the sample on which a clinical diagnostic laboratory test was performed and for which payment is made.
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  • 03/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  • 03/14/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  • 03/13/2007 - 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.
  • 03/13/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
  • 03/13/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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H.R.1501 Introduced in House08/31/2007