HR 556
114th Congress
House
Health
Allied health services
Contracts and agency
Health personnel
Medicare
Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015
Introduced: January 27, 2015
Introduced by:
Bilirakis, Gus M.
Republican
· Florida
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 30, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 27, 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.
Jan 27, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require physical therapists furnishing outpatient physical therapy services to use specified locum tenens arrangements for payment purposes in the same manner as such arrangements are used to apply to physicians furnishing substitute physicians services for other physicians.
(Locum tenens [place holder], or substitute, physicians usually assume professional practices in the absence of a regular physician for reasons such as illness, pregnancy, vacation, or continuing medical education.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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