[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1130 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1130

   To enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out 
    activities to reduce waste and fraud under the medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

Mr. Santorum (for himself, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Doolittle, 
   and Mr. Zimmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
  jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out 
    activities to reduce waste and fraud under the medicare program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR MEDICARE ANTI-FRAUD AND 
              SECONDARY PAYER ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) In General.--In addition to any amounts appropriated to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for each of the fiscal years 
described in subsection (b), there are hereby appropriated (out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated) to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services an additional $100,000,000 for the year to 
conduct and finance peer review activities under title XI of the Social 
Security Act, enforce the provisions of title XVIII of such Act that 
prohibit payments under the medicare program for items and services for 
which the medicare program is not the primary payer, impose sanctions 
on entities providing items and services under the program that engage 
in fraud or other prohibited activities, and to carry out other 
activities to reduce waste and fraud in the administration of the 
medicare program.
    (b) Years For Which Additional Appropriations Are Made.--Subsection 
(a) shall apply to fiscal years 1994 through 1997.

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