US Congress Senate Bill 313 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-07-30 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 177.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require physical therapists furnishing outpatient physical therapy services in a health professional shortage area, a medically underserved area, or a rural area 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

Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]
Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]
Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-07-30	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 177.
2015-07-30	Senate	Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-98.
2015-06-24	Senate	Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2015-01-29	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB556 (Same As) 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/313/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s313/BILLS-114s313is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s313/BILLS-114s313rs.pdf