- BENEFICIARIES
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- PROVISION
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- Community Hospitals
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- Senate bill would halt
creation of new specialty hospitals with physician investors.
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- Amgen, and other drug
makers
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- Senate bill would provide
Medicare coverage for some self-injectable drugs, including Amgen's Enbrel
and Kineret for rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Device makers.
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- House, Senate bills would
speed up Medicare coverage of new devices
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- United Health Services*
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- House, Senate bills would
boost Medicare payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico. The payments have
lagged behind those for hospitals on the U.S. mainland.
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