US Congress House Bill 556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015 Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require physical therapists furnishing outpatient physical therapy services to use specified locum tenens arrangements for payment purposes in the same manner as such arrangements are used to apply to physicians furnishing substitute physicians services for other physicians. (Locum tenens [place holder], or substitute, physicians usually assume professional practices in the absence of a regular physician for reasons such as illness, pregnancy, vacation, or continuing medical education.)

Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015

Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]
Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]	Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]
Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]
Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]	Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]
Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. Luke Messer [R-IN]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R-FL]	Rep. Frank LoBiondo [R-NJ]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]	Rep. John Moolenaar [R-MI]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]
Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. Ann Wagner [R-MO]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]	Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]
Rep. John Fleming [R-LA]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Bill Shuster [R-PA]	Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]
Rep. French Hill [R-AR]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Mimi Walters [R-CA]
Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Ryan Zinke [R-MT]
Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Keith Rothfus [R-PA]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. Gwen Graham [D-FL]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Mike Bost [R-IL]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Sam Johnson [R-TX]
Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Jim Bridenstine [R-OK]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Adrian Smith [R-NE]
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]
Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]	Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. David Trott [R-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-01-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-01-27	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-01-27	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-01-27	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.
2015-01-27	House	Introduced in House

SB313 (Same As) 2015-07-30 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 177.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/556/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr556/BILLS-114hr556ih.pdf