Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2013

Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2013 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as a part D drug any devices approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe and effective containment, removal, decontamination, and disposal of home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, decontamination/destructive device, or sharps-by-mail program or similar program.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 672 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 672

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
  coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of 
 containment, removal, decontamination and disposal of home-generated 
    needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, 
   decontamination/destruction device, or sharps-by-mail program or 
         similar program under part D of the Medicare program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 9, 2013

Mr. Isakson (for himself and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
  coverage, as supplies associated with the injection of insulin, of 
 containment, removal, decontamination and disposal of home-generated 
    needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps container, 
   decontamination/destruction device, or sharps-by-mail program or 
         similar program under part D of the Medicare program.

    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 Safe Needle Disposal 
Coverage Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF CONTAINMENT, REMOVAL, DECONTAMINATION AND DISPOSAL 
              OF HOME-GENERATED NEEDLES, SYRINGES, AND OTHER SHARPS 
              THROUGH A SHARPS CONTAINER, DECONTAMINATION/DESTRUCTION 
              DEVICE, OR SHARPS-BY-MAIL PROGRAM OR SIMILAR PROGRAM 
              UNDER MEDICARE PART D.

    (a) In General.--Section 1860D-2(e)(1)(B) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-102(e)(1)(B)) is amended by inserting after 
``regulations of the Secretary'' the following: ``and including devices 
approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration for the safe 
and effective containment, removal, decontamination and disposal of 
home-generated needles, syringes, and other sharps through a sharps 
container, decontamination/destruction device, or sharps-by-mail 
program or similar program''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2014.
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