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Introduced Session

Medicare Ambulance Access Preservation Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to increase to 6% the rate of increase in the fee schedule for ground ambulance services furnished between January 1, 2012, and January 1, 2018, in rural and urban areas. Extends to January 1, 2018, the increase in the base rate of the fee schedule the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to make for a trip in the case of ground ambulance services furnished on or after July 1, 2004, for which the transportation originates in a qualified low population density rural area.

Committee Categories

Richard Blumenthal (D),  Bob Casey (D),  Susan Collins (R),  Kent Conrad (D),  John Kerry (D),  Mary Landrieu (D),  Frank Lautenberg (D),  Patrick Leahy (D),  Jerry Moran (R),  Pat Roberts (R),  Bernie Sanders (I),  Chuck Schumer (D),  Debbie Stabenow (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (on 03/01/2011)

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