HHS Appropriations To Be Reconsidered By Conferees Following House Rejection
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
House voted 224 to 209 against the conference report which had included a provision to ban Medicare Part D coverage of erectile dysfunction drugs beginning Jan. 1, 2006.
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