Open Congress : Health - Major Bill Actions

Bill Introduced: H.R.986 Rural Health Clinic Fairness Act of 2013

2013-03-05T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the eligibility of eligible professionals practicing in rural health clinics for electronic health records and quality improvement incentives under Medicare, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.942 Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2013

2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage and payment for complex rehabilitation technology items under the Medicare program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.928 Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2013

2013-02-27T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under the Medicare Program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.846 Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013

2013-02-26T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the continued access of Medicare beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services.

Bill Introduced: H.R.809 Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013

2013-02-24T19:00:00Z

To provide for improvement of field emergency medical services, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.779 Access to Insurance for All Americans Act

2013-02-14T19:00:00Z

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to amend title 5, United States Code, to establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.794 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare Program.

2013-02-14T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing clinical psychologist services under the Medicare Program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.762 Health Care Choice Act of 2013

2013-02-14T19:00:00Z

To repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.

Bill Introduced: H.R.713 Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2013

2013-02-13T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.

Bill Introduced: H.R.670 Puerto Rico Medicare Part B Equity Act of 2013

2013-02-12T19:00:00Z

To amend part B of the title XVIII of the Social Security Act to apply deemed enrollment to residents of Puerto Rico and to provide a special enrollment period and a reduction in the late enrollment penalties for certain residents of Puerto Rico.

Bill Introduced: H.R.676 Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act

2013-02-12T19:00:00Z

To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.607 To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.

2013-02-07T19:00:00Z

To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014.

Bill Introduced: H.R.574 Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013

2013-02-05T19:00:00Z

To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform Medicare payment for physicians' services by eliminating the sustainable growth rate system and providing incentives for the adoption of innovative payment and delivery models to improve quality and efficiency.

Bill Introduced: H.R.567 State Health Flexibility Act of 2013

2013-02-05T19:00:00Z

To amend the Social Security Act to replace the Medicaid program and the Children's Health Insurance program with a block grant to the States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.500 Public Option Act

2013-02-04T19:00:00Z

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States to buy into Medicare.

Bill Introduced: H.R.487 Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2013

2013-02-03T19:00:00Z

To provide for a Medicare primary care graduate medical education pilot project in order to improve access to the primary care workforce.

Bill Introduced: H.R.473 Safe Food for Seniors Act of 2013

2013-02-03T19:00:00Z

To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to the qualification of the director of food services of a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility.

Bill Introduced: H.R.418 Medicare Fraud Enforcement and Prevention Act of 2013

2013-01-24T19:00:00Z

To reduce Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse by providing for enhanced penalties to combat Medicare and Medicaid fraud, for a Medicare data-mining system, for a study on applying biometric technology, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.413 To eliminate the 2-year delay in including oral-only ESRD-related drugs in the Medicare ESRD prospective payment system, as provided under section 632(b)(1) of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

2013-01-22T19:00:00Z

To eliminate the 2-year delay in including oral-only ESRD-related drugs in the Medicare ESRD prospective payment system, as provided under section 632(b)(1) of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

Bill Introduced: H.R.351 Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013

2013-01-22T19:00:00Z

To repeal the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board.