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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
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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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2043 Identical bill Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 3 Republican 5
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Bennet, Michael F.
Colorado · Sep 21, 2015
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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Sep 9, 2015
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Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Sep 9, 2015
 R
Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Aug 3, 2015
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Jul 27, 2015
 D
Heinrich, Martin
New Mexico · Jul 22, 2015
 R
Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Jun 16, 2015
 R
Collins, Susan M.
Maine · May 20, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1020: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1020/
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"S. 1020: Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1020/.
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S. 1020, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-1020/.
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