HR 5164
114th Congress
House
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
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2016
Introduced: May 3, 2016
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 17, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 6, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 3, 2016
Introduced in House
May 3, 2016
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.
Plain-English summary
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2016
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permanently extend the application by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of an instruction against the enforcement of certain physician supervision requirements with respect to outpatient therapeutic services in critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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