S 328
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
Introduced: February 14, 2013
Introduced by:
Thune, John
Republican
· South Dakota
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 14, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 14, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act - Amends title XVI of the Social Security Act to allow certain critical access hospitals and sole community hospitals to use interactive telecommunications systems to satisfy requirements for having a physician available to stabilize an individual with an emergency medical condition.
Limits this allowance to circumstances where: (1) the physician available by such interactive telecommunications system is board certified in emergency medicine or pediatric emergency medicine, and (2) a nurse practitioner or physician assistant is onsite in the emergency department.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1