S 891
112th Congress
Senate
Health
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2011
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 5, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 5, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Medicare Hospice Care Access Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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