HR 3769
113th Congress
House
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
To extend the nonenforcement instruction for the Medicare direct supervision requirement for therapeutic hospital outpatient services insofar as it applies to critical access hospitals and rural hospitals, to require a study of the impact on critical access hospitals and rural hospitals of a failure to extend such instruction, and for other purposes.
Introduced: December 12, 2013
Introduced by:
Smith, Adrian
Republican
· Nebraska
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Became law
Dec 13, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 12, 2013
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.
Dec 12, 2013
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a specified extension period, to extend the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction (the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals, as extended for calendar year 2013 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services).
Directs the Secretary to study the impact (including the economic impact and the impact upon hospital staffing needs, if any) on critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals of not extending the therapy supervision nonenforcement instruction.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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