S 1954
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
A bill to provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2014.
Everywhere this bill has been
10 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 14, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 11, 2014
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.
Feb 11, 2014
Received in the House.
Feb 11, 2014
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Feb 10, 2014
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S855)
Feb 10, 2014
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S855)
Feb 10, 2014
Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S855)
Feb 10, 2014
Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S855)
Jan 16, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 16, 2014
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to continue to apply through calendar year 2014 the enforcement instruction on physician supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals, as extended in November 2012 for calendar year 2013 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (The instruction directs Medicare contractors not to evaluate or enforce such requirements until the policy on supervision of such services could be revisited.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
1