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115th Congress
Senate
Health
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2017
Introduced: January 30, 2017
Introduced by:
Thune, John
Republican
· South Dakota
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 30, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 30, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2017
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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