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Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015

Introduced: April 21, 2015 See on congress.gov

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Apr 21, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Apr 21, 2015

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services furnished: (1) after a specified date in the year this Act is enacted; or (2) in any subsequent year before the Secretary conducts and publishes, as part of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for a year, an analysis of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Data Manager information used to determine what, if any, efficiencies exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day.

What's happening now April 21, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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