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Transcript of Social Security Act Amendments (1965) |
AN ACT
To provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social Security Act with a supplementary medical benefits program and an extended program of medical assistance, to increase benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System, to improve the Federal-State public assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, with the following table of contents, may be cited as the "Social Security Amendments of 1965".
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE I—HEALTH INSURANCE FOB THE AGED AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
SEC. 100. Short title.
PART I—HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR THE AGED
SEC. 101. Entitlement to hospital Insurance benefits.
SEC. 102. Hospital insurance benefits and supplementary medical Insurance benefits.
TITLE XVIII—HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED
SEC. 1801. Prohibition against any Federal interference.
SEC. 1802. Free choice by patient guaranteed.
SEC. 1808. Option to Individuals to obtain other health insurance protection.
PART A—HOSPITAL INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR THE AGED
SEC. 1811. Description of program.
SEC. 1812. Scope of benefits.
SEC. 1818. Deductibles and coinsurance.
SEC. 1814. Conditions of and limitations on payment for services.
(a) Requirement of requests and certifications.
(b) Reasonable cost of services.
(c) No payments to Federal providers of services.
(d) Payments for emergency hospital services.
(e) Payment for Inpatient hospital services prior to notification of noneligibility.
(f) Payment for certain emergency hospital services furnished outside the United
States.
SEC. 1815. Payment to providers of services
SEC. 1816. Use of public agencies or private organizations to facilitate payment
to providers of services.
SEC. 1817. Federal hospital insurance trust fund.
PARTT B—SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR THE AGED
SEC. 1831. Establishment of supplementary medical insurance program for the
aged.
SEC. 1832. Scope of benefits.
SEC. 1838. Payment of benefits.
SEC. 1834. Limitation on home health services.
SEC. 1885. Procedure for payment of claims of providers of services.
SEC. 1886. Eligible individuals.
SEC. 1887. Enrollment periods.
SEC. 1888. Coverage period.
SEC. 1889. Amounts of premiums.
SEC. 1840. Payment of premiums.
SEC. 1841. Federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund.
SEC. 1842. Use of carriers for administration of benefits.
SEC. 1848. State agreements for coverage of eligible individuals who are receiving
money payments under public assistance programs.
SEC. 1844. Appropriations to cover Government contributions and contingency
reserve.
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TITLE I—HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
SHORT TITLE
SEC. 100. This title may be cited as the "Health Insurance for the Aged
Act".
PART l—HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR THE AGED
ENTITLEMENT TO HOSPITAL INSURANCE BENEFITS
SEC. 101. Title II of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
"ENTITLEMENT TO HOSPITAL INSURANCE BENEFITS
"SEC. 226. (a) Every individual who—
" (1) has attained the age of 65, and
" (2) is entitled to monthly insurance benefits under section 202 or is
a qualified railroad retirement beneficiary, shall be entitled to hospital insurance
benefits under part A of title XVIII for each month for which he meets the condition
specified in paragraph (2), beginning with the first month after June 1966 for
which he meets the conditions specified in paragraphs (1) and (2).
"(b) For purposes of subsection (a)—
"(1) entitlement of an individual to hospital insurance benefits for a
month shall consist of entitlement to have payment made under, and subject to
the limitations in, part A of title XVIII on his behalf for inpatient hospital
services, post-hospital extended care services, post-hospital home health services,
and outpatient hospital diagnostic services (as such terms are defined in part
C of title XVIII) furnished him in the United States (or outside the United
States in the case of inpatient hospital services furnished under the conditions
described in section 1814(f) ) during such months except that (A) no such payment
may be made for post-hospital extended care services furnished before January
1967, and (B) no such payment may be made for post- hospital extended care services
or post-hospital home health services unless the discharge from the hospital
required to qualify such services for payment under part A of title XVIII occurred
after June 30, 1966, or on or after the first day of the month in which he attains
age 65, whichever is later; and
"(2) an individual shall be deemed entitled to monthly insurance benefits
under section 202, or to be a qualified railroad retirement beneficiary, for
the month in which he died if he would have been entitled to such benefits,
or would have been a qualified railroad retirement beneficiary , for such month
had he died in the next month.
" (c) For purposes of this section, the term 'qualified railroad retirement beneficiary' means an individual whose name has been certified to the Secretary by the Railroad Retirement Board under section 21of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937. An individual shall cease to be a qualified railroad retirement beneficiary at the close of the month preceding the month which is certified by the…
(The first page of the act is provided. For the remainder see “Social Security Amendments of 1965” (PL 89-97, 30 July 1965), 79 United States Statutes at Large, pp. 286-423.)
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