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CMS Administrator Tom Scully today (Oct. 3) told lawmakers that his agency is prepared to take administrative action to remedy's Medicare's average wholesale price (AWP) system, according to Scully's written testimony for today's Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing on AWP.
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BINGAMAN FLOOR STATEMENT
PASSAGE OF S. 724, THE "MOTHERS AND NEWBORNS
HEALTH INSURANCE ACT OF 2001"
Mr. President, I rise today with the purpose of asking unanimous consent to take up and pass S. 724, the "Mothers and Newborns Health Insurance Act of 2001," as reported by the Senate Finance Committee. This legislation, introduced by Senators Bond and Breaux, would simply give states the option of covering pregnant women in the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, for the full range of pre- and postpartum care.