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42 U.S.C. 1320b-14: Outreach efforts to increase awareness of the availability of medicare cost-sharing and subsidies for low-income individuals under subchapter XVIII

Created in 2000 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-554). Changed by 2 later laws. 1 bill in this Congress would change it.

This Congress

  • H.R. 9877 Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026 · introduced · would change (a), (b), (c), (d)

How it got here

2008

  • Pub. L. 110–275 added subsec. (c). (Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008) Law text · (c)

2003

  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(1), inserted "and subsidies for low-income individuals under subchapter XVIII" after "cost-sharing" in section catchline. (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(2)(A)(i), inserted "for the transitional assistance under section 1395w–141(f) of this title, or for premium and cost-sharing subsidies under section 1395w–114 of this title" before semicolon. (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (a)
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(2)(A)(ii), inserted ", program, and subsidies" after "medical assistance". (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (a)
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(2)(B)(i), inserted ", the transitional assistance under section 1395w–141(f) of this title, or premium and cost-sharing subsidies under section 1395w–114 of this title" after "assistance" in introductory provisions. (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (a)
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(2)(B)(ii), substituted "eligibility for medicare cost-sharing under the medicaid program" for "such eligibility". (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (a)
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(3)(A), inserted ", for transitional assistance under section 1395w–141(f) of this title, or for premium and cost-sharing subsidies for low-income individuals under section 1395w–114 of this title" after "1396u–3 of this title". (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (b)
  • Pub. L. 108–173, §103(g)(3)(B), inserted ", program, and subsidies" after "medical assistance". (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) Law text · (b)

Text, outline and history from the official U.S. Code (2024 edition) on GovInfo, published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Changes made after that edition appear under This Congress.