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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.

Introduced: January 16, 2014 Introduced by: Moran, Jerry Republican · Kansas See on congress.gov
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 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
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
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 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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(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 February 14, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 2359 Related bill Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2014
  • HR 4067 Identical bill To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic serv…
 Bill text 3 versions

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Thune, John
South Dakota · Jan 16, 2014
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1954: 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.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1954/
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