S 623 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 20, 2013 Originated Senate Sponsor Benjamin L. Cardin D-MD

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 20, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 20, 2013
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments for physician services, to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from applying a multiple procedure payment reduction policy to the professional component of imaging services until the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register: (1) an analysis of the information used in the final rule to implement the physician fee schedule in 2013 to determine what, if any, efficiences exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day; and (2) detailed information on which activities in the vignettes in such rule were assigned specified reduction percentages, how such percentage reductions for the pre-, intra-, and post-service work were determined and calculated, and the clinical aspects that went into those decisions.

Cosponsors 22

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 20, 2013 to Feb 26, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-LADavid VitterOriginalMar 20, 2013
D-NMMartin HeinrichApr 25, 2013
R-MESusan M. CollinsMay 6, 2013
D-AKMark BegichMay 8, 2013
D-LAMary L. LandrieuMay 8, 2013
D-MAWilliam M. CowanMay 8, 2013
D-MNAmy KlobucharMay 20, 2013
D-ARMark L. PryorJun 7, 2013
R-TNLamar AlexanderJun 18, 2013
R-MORoy BluntJun 19, 2013
R-IDJames E. RischJul 8, 2013
D-CTChristopher MurphyAug 1, 2013
D-MAEdward J. MarkeySep 9, 2013
D-MIDebbie StabenowSep 10, 2013
R-KSJerry MoranSep 10, 2013
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Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 20, 2013Introduced in Senate
  2. Mar 20, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 846Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013Identical billMar 4, 2013

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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  1. Mar 20, 2013Introduced in Senate

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