Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of Legislation writes legislative summaries for all major legislation passed by the Congress. The list below displays CMS' legislative summaries by year. To show only a particular year, select the relevant year from the drop down menu and click "Refresh List".
| 2003 | Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 | 108-173 | On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which is an act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act. The law provides for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program and works to strengthen and improve the Medicare program. |
| 1997 | Balanced Budget Act of 1997 | 105-33 | On August 5, 1997, the President signed into law H.R. 2015, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The law makes numerous changes to various titles of the Social Security Act, as well as creating a new Tittle XXI, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. This summary describes only those changes that may relate to the Medicare, Medicaid or State Children's Health Insurance Program. |
| 1994 | Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994 | 103-296 | On August 15, 1994, the President signed into law H.R. 4277, the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994. The law establishes the Social Security Administration as an independent agency and makes program improvements to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs (including benefits to individuals disabled by drug addiction and alcoholism). |
| 1994 | Social Security Act Amendments of 1994 | 103-432 | On October 2, 1994, the President signed into law H.R. 5252, the Social Security Act Amendments of 1994. The law makes numerous miscellaneous and technical corrections to various titles of the Social Security Act. This summary describes those changes that pertain to the Medicare program and (indirectly) Medicaid eligibility requirements. |
| 1993 | Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 | 103-66 | On August 10, 1993, the President signed into law, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Public Law 103-66, which provides for reconciliation pursuant to section 7 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1994. |
| 1992 | Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992 | 102-568 | On October 29, 1992, the President signed into law H.R 5008, the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992. Among other things, this legislation is intended to revise the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses of certain service-disabled veterans, and to provide supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans. |
| 1992 | Tennessee Primary Care Network | 102-317 | On July 2, 1992 the President signed into law S. 2901, the Tennessee Primary Care Network legislation. The legislation amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend the waiver of the enrollment mix requirement under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act which was granted to the Tennessee Primary Care Network. |
| 1992 | Department of Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act | 102-139 | In response to claims that the Medicaid rebate program caused drug price increases to other Federal purchasers, the Department of Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, enacted on October 28, 1991, provides that prices for drugs paid by or in contracts administered by DVA could not be used in the Medicaid drug rebate calculation from October 28, 1991 through June 30, 1992. |
| 1992 | Veterans Health Care Act | 102-585 | On November 4, 1992, the President signed into law H.R. 5193, the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, which is an act to amend title 38, United States Code, to revise certain pay authorities that apply to Department of Veterans Affairs nurses, to improve preventive health services for veterans, to improve health-care services for women veterans, and to enable the Department to purchase pharmaceuticals at reasonable prices, and for other purposes. |
| 1992 | Dayton Area Health Plan Inc. | 102-276 | This legislation allows the Dayton Area Health Plan, Inc. to continue to serve as an HMO for Medicaid recipients in Montgomery County, Ohio from May 1, 1992 through January 1994. Without this legislation, the Dayton Area Health Plan, Inc. would not meet the enrollment composition requirements for Medicaid HMOs. |
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