Medicare Beneficiary Choice Preservation Act of 2010

Medicare Beneficiary Choice Preservation Act of 2010 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with respect to disenrollment of MedicareAdvantage (MA) eligible individuals from an MA plan.

Repeals the provision that an individual enrolled in an MA plan may during the first 45 days of a year (beginning with 2011): (1) change his or her plan election at any time, but only to elect to receive benefits under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under parts A and B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; and (2) elect qualified prescription drug coverage under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).

Restores as if the repealed provision had never been enacted the previous provision which allowed an MA eligible individual continuous open enrollment and disenrollment during first three months of any year after 2006.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6303 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6303

To preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by repealing section 3204(a) of 
            the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2010

Mr. Arcuri (for himself and Mr. McMahon) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition 
      to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by repealing section 3204(a) of 
            the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Beneficiary Choice 
Preservation Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. PRESERVATION OF MEDICARE BENEFICIARY CHOICE.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), subsection (a) of section 
3204 of such Act (relating to changes in the annual continuous open 
enrollment and disenrollment period under Medicare Advantage) is 
repealed and the provision of law amended by paragraph (1) of such 
subsection is restored as if subsection had never been enacted.
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