legislation: 104-hr-3714
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| 104-hr-3714 | 104 | hr | 3714 | Medicare Hospice Benefit Amendments of 1996 | Health | 1996-06-25 | 1996-07-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. | House | Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3] | MD | D | C000141 | 79 | Medicare Hospice Benefit Amendments of 1996 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to hospice care to: (1) restructure the hospice care benefit period; (2) cover ambulance services, diagnostic tests, and anticancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy services; (3) permit contracting with independent physicians or physician groups for hospice care services; (4) allow waiver of certain staffing requirements for hospice care programs in non-urbanized areas; (5) define coverage denial, with respect to the limitation on the liability of beneficiaries and providers, to mean a determination that an individual is not terminally ill; and (6) extend the period for physician certification of an individual's terminal illness. | 2025-08-21T20:16:03Z |