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S 1064 113th Congress Senate

Medicare Mental Health Access Act

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psy… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare program.

Introduced: May 23, 2013 See on congress.gov
Health Health personnelMedicareMental health
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May 23, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 23, 2013
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 23, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Mental Health Access Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to treat as a physician, for Medicare purposes, a clinical psychologist acting within the scope of a psychologist's license (or other state law authorization), but only with respect to the furnishing of clinical psychologists services which the psychologist is legally authorized to perform by the state.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 794 Related bill To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for pu…
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 4 Republican 1 Independent 1
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Mar 24, 2014
 D
Schatz, Brian
Hawaii · Sep 30, 2013
 D
Hirono, Mazie K.
Hawaii · Sep 9, 2013
 D
Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Aug 1, 2013
 D
Heinrich, Martin
New Mexico · Jul 24, 2013
 I
King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Jul 11, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1064: Medicare Mental Health Access Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1064/
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"S. 1064: Medicare Mental Health Access Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1064/.
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S. 1064, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1064/.
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