US Congress House Bill 1828 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 30 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow payment under Medicare for certain services furnished to hospice patients by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). With respect to a patient who elects to receive hospice care under Medicare, current law generally limits payment for services that are either duplicative of such care or related to the treatment of the individual's terminal illness. However, current law exempts from this limitation: (1) physicians' services furnished by an attending physician not employed by the hospice program; and (2) services provided or arranged by the hospice program. The bill expands this exemption with regard to rural health clinic and FQHC services. Specifically, the payment limitation shall not apply to such services that: (1) would otherwise be physicians' services if furnished by an individual unaffiliated with a rural health clinic or FQHC; and (2) are either arranged by the hospice program or furnished by an attending physician not employed by the hospice program.

Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017

Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]
Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Sen. Roger Marshall [R-KS]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Matt Gaetz [R-FL]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]
Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Kristi Noem [R-SD]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. Don Bacon [R-NE]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]	Rep. Jackie Walorski [R-IN]	Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Francis Rooney [R-FL]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Paul Cook [R-CA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-03-30	House	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2017-03-30	House	Introduced in House

SB980 (Related) 2017-04-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1828/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1828/BILLS-115hr1828ih.pdf