S 895
116th 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 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 27, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S2048)
Mar 27, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2019
This bill permanently extends the rule to not enforce the Medicare direct-supervision requirements for outpatient, therapeutic services at critical access hospitals and small, rural hospitals. Such rule permits therapeutic services to be administered at such hospitals outside a physician or nonphysician practitioner's presence.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S2048)
Committees of jurisdiction
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