US Congress House Bill 4062 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 37-9)
Status: Introduced on November 18 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting Seniors Access to Proper Care Act of 2015 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow an authorized physician or practitioner who is not enrolled as a Medicare provider to, under certain circumstances, prescribe covered drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Specifically, the physician or practitioner must not be: (1) otherwise disqualified from being enrolled; or (2) a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, unless the doctor's practice prescribes a low-volume of billings for such drugs under Medicare.

Protecting Seniors Access to Proper Care Act of 2015

Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA]
Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Babin [R-TX]	Rep. Michael Simpson [R-ID]	Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Richard Nugent [R-FL]	Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]
Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Ann Wagner [R-MO]
Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Sam Johnson [R-TX]
Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]
Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R-MO]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]
Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]
Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. Rod Blum [R-IA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-11-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-11-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-11-18	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-11-18	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-11-18	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.
2015-11-18	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4062/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4062/BILLS-114hr4062ih.pdf