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HR 3038 110th Congress House Health Congressional reporting requirements Drugs Medical fees Medical laboratories Medical tests Medicare Physicians Social Welfare

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2007

Introduced: July 12, 2007 Introduced by: Sessions, Pete Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Jul 16, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 12, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 12, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Jul 12, 2007
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise physician service fee schedule requirements, particularly the conversion factors in the formula for determining fees.

Provides for separate conversion factors for service categories. Establishes specified update service categories and expenditure measurement categories. Prescribes a formula for establishing updates for conversion factors for update service categories. Replaces sustainable growth rates with service category growth rates

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the appropriate congressional committees after the end of any year in which actual expenditures exceeded allowed expenditures for such year and the preceding year for either of the expenditure measurement categories: (1) clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; or (2) drugs, biologicals, and radiopharmaceuticals. Requires an analysis of the reasons for such excess expenditures and recommendations for addressing them in the future.

What's happening now July 16, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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