S. 3908 119th Congress Senate

SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow payments under the Medicare program for certain items and services furnished by off-campus outp… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow payments under the Medicare program for certain items and services furnished by off-campus outpatient departments of a provider to be determined under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 25, 2026 Introduced by: John Hoeven Republican · North Dakota See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 25, 2026

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act

This bill allows for payment under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services of certain items and services that are furnished at off-campus outpatient departments. Specifically, the bill allows for payment of items and services for which payments to physician specialists (under the Medicare physician fee schedule) did not exceed $2 million during the previous year.

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Klobuchar, Amy

Minnesota · Feb 25, 2026

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3908: SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3908/

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"S. 3908: SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3908/.

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S. 3908, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3908/.

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[S. 3908: SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3908/)