US Congress Senate Bill 1020 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)
Status: Introduced on April 21 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services furnished: (1) after a specified date in the year this Act is enacted; or (2) in any subsequent year before the Secretary conducts and publishes, as part of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for a year, an analysis of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Data Manager information used to determine what, if any, efficiencies exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day.

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015

Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]
Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]
Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]	Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-21	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2043 (Same As) 2015-05-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1020/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1020/BILLS-114s1020is.pdf