HR 4275
99th Congress
House
Social Welfare
Administrative remedies
Health
Hospital patients
Medicare
Patients' rights
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
A bill to amend title IX of the Social Security Act to require peer review organizations to act within two days on requests of hospital inpatients for reconsideration of determinations denying payment for continuing care in the hospital.
Introduced: February 27, 1986
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 6, 1986
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Mar 3, 1986
Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 27, 1986
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb 27, 1986
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 27, 1986
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends part B (Peer Review) of title IX of the Social Security Act to require peer review organizations receiving a Medicare beneficiary's request, while such beneficiary is still a hospital inpatient, for reconsideration of a determination denying payment for continuing inpatient hospital care to give the beneficiary notice of its reconsidered determination within two days of receiving the request.
What's happening now
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
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