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S 623 113th Congress Senate

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the continued access of Medicare beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services.

Introduced: October 28, 2013 See on congress.gov
Health Medical tests and diagnostic methodsMedicare
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It never became law before the 113th Congress (2013–2014) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 20, 2013
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action March 20, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments for physician services, to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services until the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register: (1) an analysis of the information used in the final rule to implement the physician fee schedule in 2013 to determine what, if any, efficiences exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day; and (2) detailed information on which activities in the vignettes in such rule were assigned specified reduction percentages, how such percentage reductions for the pre-, intra-, and post-service work were determined and calculated, and the clinical aspects that went into those decisions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 623: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-623/
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"S. 623: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-623/.
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S. 623, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-623/.
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