Medicare Physician Regulatory Relief Amendments of 1991
Official title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide relief to physicians with respect to excessive regulations under the medicare program.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Medicare Physician Regulatory Relief Amendments of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) prohibit the denial of physician claims because of patient failure to complete Medicare secondary payer questionnaires; (2) prohibit carriers from using extrapolation to recover the amounts they reimbursed physicians for claims for which Medicare disallows payment, if the physician requests that each such claim be individually identified; (3) prohibit the imposition of specified user fees on physicians; (4) require consideration of physician comments in annual carrier performance reviews; (5) allow individuals (including physicians) to file administrative appeals when they have suffered damages as a result of the failure of a carrier to carry out Medicare policies; and (6) require review of medical necessity denials by physicians in the same medical specialty as the physician providing the service.
Amends the Medicare and Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) programs to permit the reimbursement of a patient's regular physician for services provided by another physician who covers for the regular physician under contractual arrangements.
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to repeal the peer review requirement for certain surgical procedures.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2695: Medicare Physician Regulatory Relief Amendments of 1991. 102nd Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/102-HR-2695/
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