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HR 2878 114th Congress House Health Health personnel Home and outpatient care Hospital care Medicare Rural conditions and development

To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.

Introduced: June 24, 2015 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 26, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 24, 2015
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.
Jun 24, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to continue to instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.

What's happening now July 6, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • S 3129 Related bill A bill to provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeut…
  • HR 5613 Related bill CAH Act of 2016
  • S 1461 Identical bill A bill to provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeut…
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2
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Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Nov 2, 2015
 R
Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Sep 17, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2878: To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2878/
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"H.R. 2878: To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2878/.
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H.R. 2878, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2878/.
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