Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2025
Official title: To repeal changes made by health care reform laws to the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals.
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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.
Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2025
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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- CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS
- AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION
- MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4002: Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4002/
"H.R. 4002: Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4002/.
H.R. 4002, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4002/.
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