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• Medicare Payments for Currently Covered Prescription Drugs
  • October 3, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-84, and Printed Hearing
• Legislation to Reduce Medical Errors
  • September 10, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Medicare's Geographic Cost Adjustors
  • July 23, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Promoting Disease Management in Medicare
  • April 16, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-80, and Printed Hearing
• Medicare Supplemental Insurance
  • March 14, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory,  Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-60, and Printed Hearing
• Health Quality and Medical Errors
  • March 7, 2002  -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-76, and Printed Hearing
• Physician Payments
  • February 28.2002  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-70, and Printed Hearing
• Status of the Medicare+Choice Program
  • December 4, 2001  -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-49, and Printed Hearing #107-49, PDF
• H.R. 2768, the Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2001"
  • September 25, 2001  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-45, and Printed Hearing #107-45, PDF
• Patient Bill of Rights:  Comparing the Major Alternatives
  • POSTPONED  -- Hearing Advisory,  Revised Postponement Advisory
• Rural Health Care in Medicare
  • June 12, 2001 -  -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-33, and Printed Hearing #107-33, PDF
• Patient Protections in Managed Care
  • April 24, 2001 -  -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-14, and Printed Hearing #107-14, PDF
• Nation's Uninsured
  • April 4, 2001 -  -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-23, and Printed Hearing #107-23, PDF
• Hearing Series on Medicare Reform
  • May 9, 2001 - Strengthening Medicare:  Modernizing Beneficiary Cost Sharing -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-21, and Printed Hearing #107-21, PDF
  • May 1, 2001 - Medicare+Choice:  Lessons for Reform -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-20, and Printed Hearing #107-20, PDF
  • March 27, 2001 - Laying the Groundwork for a Rx Drug Benefit -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-7, and Printed Hearing #107-7, PDF
  • March 15, 2001 - Bringing Regulatory Relief to Beneficiaries and Providers -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-12,  and Printed Hearing #107-12, PDF
  • February 28, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-4, and Printed Hearing #107-4, PDF

•  September 12, 2002
  • H.R. 4889, the "Patient Safety Improvement Act of 2002" -- Action Release -- Click on links for a copy of  the bill as reported by the Subcommittee on Health, and the Subcommittee Report, a summary of the bill, section-by-section summary of the Chairman's amendment, Chairman's amendment in the nature of a substitute, summary of changes to H.R. 4889.  See Full Committee for further action.
•  October 4, 2001
  • H.R. 2768, the "Medicare Regulatory and Contracting Reform Act of 2001" -- Action Release -- Click on the links for a copy of a summary of the bill, section-by-section summary of the bill, the Chairman's amendment in the nature of a substitute, summary of the Chairman's amendment.  See Full Committee for further action.

• WMCP:  106-2
  Compilation of the Social Security Laws, Including the Social Security Act, as Amended, and Related Enactments Through January 1, 1999.

• WMCP:  106-14
  Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, "The 2000 Green Book." The 2000 Green Book can be searched as a database and viewed in a text or .pdf format. Type 'green book' in the Search Terms field to retrieve all sections of the Green Book. (Please note that due to the large size of many of the sections, it may be necessary to increase the Disk Cache setting in your web browser when viewing the Green Book).

• WMCP:   106-4, PDF
  Medicare and Health Care Chart Book, May 17, 1999 -- A 215-page statistical guide to various healthcare issues including Medicare, Medicare managed care, insurance coverage, and overall healthcare spending figures.

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to programs providing payments (from any source) for health care, health delivery systems, or health research. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters that relate to the health care programs of the Social Security Act (including titles V, XI (Part B), XVIII, and XIX thereof) and, concurrent with the full Committee, tax credit and deduction provisions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with health insurance premiums and health care costs.

Source: "Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the One Hundred Seventh Congress," WMCP: 107-1.