Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023
Official title: A bill to repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023
This bill repeals provisions under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) that limit, for purposes of Medicare participation, self-referrals by newly constructed or expanded physician-owned hospitals.
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Bodies those filers lobbied
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 470: Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-470/
"S. 470: Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-470/.
S. 470, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-470/.
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