US Congress House Bill 3506 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on November 22 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-11-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the face-to-face encounter framework in hospice care. Allows a clinical nurse specialist, physician assistant, or other health professional (in addition to a hospice physician or a nurse practitioner, as under current law) to conduct the face-to-face encounter with an individual to determine continued eligibility for hospice care before the first 60-day (currently, 180-day) recertification period and each subsequent recertification period. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare Hospice Payment Reform demonstration program to test any revisions to the methodology for determining payment rates for routine home care and other hospice care services. Sets at every three years the frequency of surveys of certified hospice program entities.

Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act

Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Jason Altmire [D-PA]	Rep. Robert Andrews [D-NJ]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R-MD]	Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Leonard Boswell [D-IA]
Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]
Rep. Jim Gerlach [R-PA]	Rep. Tim Griffin [R-AR]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]
Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]	Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]
Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]	Rep. Larry Kissell [D-NC]	Rep. Tom Latham [R-IA]
Rep. Steven LaTourette [R-OH]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]	Rep. Jeff Miller [R-FL]
Rep. William Owens [D-NY]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. David Reichert [R-WA]	Rep. Mike D. Rogers [R-AL]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]
Rep. Mike Ross [D-AR]	Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Steve Southerland [R-FL]	Rep. Cliff Stearns [R-FL]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]
Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]	Rep. C.W. Young [R-FL]	Rep. Don Young [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-11-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-11-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-11-22	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-11-22	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-11-22	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

SB722 (Same As) 2011-04-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2089-2090)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/3506/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr3506/BILLS-112hr3506ih.pdf