Keep Physicians Serving Patients Act of 2019
Latest action · Jun 19, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedJun 18, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Keep Physicians Serving Patients Act of 2019
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to use specified data regarding physician wages and office rent when determining certain geographic adjustment factors for the payment of physician services under Medicare. With respect to such payment, the bill also makes permanent certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index and extends to all localities certain minimum adjustments to the practice expense index.
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 18, 2019 to Dec 5, 2019; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NE | Adrian Smith | Original | Jun 18, 2019 |
| R-IL | Darin LaHood | Original | Jun 18, 2019 |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | Original | Jun 18, 2019 |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Original | Jun 18, 2019 |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Jun 28, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Jefferson Van Drew | Jun 28, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Jun 28, 2019 | |
| D-IA | Cynthia Axne | Jul 9, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Jul 9, 2019 | |
| R-NY | Tom Reed | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| R-WI | Glenn Grothman | Jul 11, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Angie Craig | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Aug 6, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Aug 16, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Aug 16, 2019 | |
| D-NM | Xochitl Torres Small | Sep 6, 2019 | |
| R-AR | J. French Hill | Sep 10, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Oct 28, 2019 | |
| D-OK | Kendra S. Horn | Dec 5, 2019 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 18, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 19, 2019 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 18, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 19, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 18, 2019Introduced in House
- Jun 18, 2019Referred 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 102, June 18, 2019, page H4771.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the accuracy of geographic adjustment factors under the Medicare program and to permanently extend certain adjustments to such factors for certain localities, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Keep Physicians Serving Patients Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 18, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
