US Congress Senate Bill 972 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on May 16 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-05-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from implementing, administering, or enforcing specified regulations insofar as they would replace International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 with ICD-10 as a standard for code sets for appropriate data elements for financial and administrative transactions involving the electronic exchange of health information. (The ICD is a health care classification system of diagnostic codes for classifying diseases.)

Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013

Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK]	Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]
Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-16	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1701 (Same As) 2013-06-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/972/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s972/BILLS-113s972is.pdf