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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-952
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
ENSURING PATIENT ACCESS TO CRITICAL
BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCTS ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 24, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of Missouri, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1691]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1691) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to
ensure prompt coverage of breakthrough devices under the Medi-
care program, and for other purposes, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends
that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ............................................................... 3
A. Purpose and Sum m ary ..................................................................... 3
B. Background and Need for Legislation .................... 3
C. Legislative H istory ........................................................................... . 4
B ackground ..................................................................................... 4
Com m ittee H earings ....................................................................... 4
Com m ittee A ction ........................................................................... 4
D . Designated H earing .......................................................................... 4
II. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL .................................................................. 4
A . Reasons for Change .......................................................................... 4
B. Explanation of Provisions ................................................................. 5
C . E ffective D ate ................................................................................... . 5
III. VOTES OF THE COM M ITTEE ................................................................... 5
IV. BUDGET EFFECTS OF THE BILL ............................................................ 6
A. Committee Estimate of Budgetary Effects .................. 6
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