US Congress Senate Bill 1479 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on August 2 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-08-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the allowance for disenrollment, between January 1 and March 15 of each year, only from an MedicareAdvantage plan to elect enrollment in the original Medicare fee-for-service program. Restores the option under previous law to elect to change from a MedicareAdvantage to the original Medicare fee-for-service plan, or from the original Medicare fee-for-service to a MedicareAdvantage plan, once a year during the first three months.

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-08-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1580 (Related) 2011-04-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1479/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1479/BILLS-112s1479is.pdf