US HB846 | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 120-67)
Status: Introduced on February 27 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 27 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments for physician services, to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services until the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register: (1) an analysis of the information used in the final rule to implement the physician fee schedule in 2013 to determine what, if any, efficiences exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day; and (2) detailed information on which activities in the vignettes in such rule were assigned specified reduction percentages, how such percentage reductions for the pre-, intra-, and post-service work were determined and calculated, and the clinical aspects that went into those decisions.
Title
Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-04 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| 2013-03-01 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| 2013-02-27 | House | Referred to House Ways and Means |
| 2013-02-27 | House | Referred to House Energy and Commerce |
| 2013-02-27 | House | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
Same As/Similar To
SB623 (Same As) 2013-03-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Subjects
US Congress State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/846/all-info |
| Text | https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr846/BILLS-113hr846ih.pdf |
