HR 2552
116th Congress
House
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
PLACE Act of 2019
Introduced: May 7, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 8, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 7, 2019
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.
May 7, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Protecting Local Access to Care for Everyone Act of 2019 or the PLACE Act of 2019
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to treat certain clinical services that are furnished by an excepted off-campus outpatient department of a provider (i.e., a department that would be considered an off-campus outpatient department but for certain statutory exceptions) during a specified period as though such services were provided on-campus for purposes of Medicare payment. (In November 2018, the CMS issued regulations that applied a lower Medicare payment rate for such services.)
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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