US Congress House Bill 3769 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on December 12 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-12-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a specified extension period, to extend the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction (the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals, as extended for calendar year 2013 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). Directs the Secretary to study the impact (including the economic impact and the impact upon hospital staffing needs, if any) on critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals of not extending the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction.

To extend the nonenforcement instruction for the Medicare direct supervision requirement for therapeutic hospital outpatient services insofar as it applies to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, to require a study of the impact on critical access hospitals and rural hospitals of a failure to extend such instruction, and for other purposes.

Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]

Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]

Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]

Rep. Tom Latham [R-IA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-12-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-12-12	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2013-12-12	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-12-12	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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3769/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr3769/BILLS-113hr3769ih.pdf