HR 6118
109th Congress
House
Health
Home care services
Long-term care
Medicare
Mental health services
Physicians' assistants
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Medicare Physician Assistant Continuity of Care Act of 2006
Introduced: September 20, 2006
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Everywhere this bill has been
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In committee
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Became law
Sep 25, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
Sep 20, 2006
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Sep 20, 2006
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Physician Assistant Continuity of Care Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a physician assistant, when delegated by a physician, to: (1) certify that inpatient psychiatric hospital services or post-hospital extended care services are required; (2) establish and review a plan for home health services; and (3) certify a terminal illness with respect to hospice care.
Covers as hospice care any legally authorized services of a physician assistant performed under a physician's supervision.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1