No provision. Conference Agreement The conference agreement includes additional provisions relating to the implementation of the Medicare prescription drug discount card and transitional assistance program. It excludes program costs from the calculation of the Part B premium. It applies Medicaid confidentiality provisions to drug pricing data reported by manufacturers under the program. The conference agreement includes additional administrative provisions. It specifies that the following sections of law would not apply to the card program: New Section 1871(a)(3) of the Social Security Act relating to time line for publication of final rules; Chapter 35 of Title 44 of the U.S. Code relating to coordination of federal information policy; Section 553(d) of Title 5 of the U.S. Code requiring at least 30 days between issuance and effective date of a substantive rule; and Section 801(a)(3)(A) of title 5 of the U.S. Code providing 60 days for congressional review of a major rule. The contracting authority extended to the Secretary under Medicare+Choice also applies to the Secretary with respect to the discount card program. There could be no judicial review of a determination not to endorse or enter into a contract with a card sponsor. Further, an order to enjoin any provision of the new section 1807 would not affect any other provision of the section and all provisions are to be treated as severable. The Secretary of the Treasury, upon written request from the Secretary of HHS, is required to disclose to officers and employees of HHS certain information with respect to a taxpayer for the most recent taxable year for which information is available in the Internal Revenue Service’s taxpayer data information system, or if no return was filed for that year, the year before that. Required information would consist of whether the adjusted gross income (as modified by HHS regulations) of the taxpayer, and if applicable the taxpayer’s spouse, exceeds amounts that are 100 percent and 135 percent of the official poverty line. Such information may only be used to determine eligibility for the transitional low income assistance program. State Pharmaceutical Assistance Transition Commission (Section 106 of Conference agreement; Section 107 of House bill).
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