HEARTS and Rural Relief Act
Latest action · Dec 7, 2020 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 116-620, Part I.
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 24, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
HEARTS and Rural Relief Act
This bill makes a series of changes relating to Medicare coverage and requirements, particularly with respect to military retirees. Specifically, the bill (1) exempts certain military retirees who are under 65 years of age, and who no longer receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, from the requirement to enroll in Medicare medical services in order to be eligible for TRICARE; (2) increases funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund; and (3) temporarily provides for Medicare coverage of certain prostate cancer DNA Specimen Provenance Assay tests.
The bill also makes other changes to Medicare payment systems for certain items and services. Among other things, the bill (1) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to specify the criteria used to exclude certain procedures from the list of covered surgical procedures that may be performed in an ambulatory surgical center under Medicare, and (2) extends the instruction from the CMS for contractors not to enforce the requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2021.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 24, 2019 to Jun 25, 2019; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Jun 24, 2019 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Jun 25, 2019 |
Committees 3
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 24, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 25, 2019 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 24, 2019Markup Jun 26, 2019Reported Dec 7, 2020 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Jun 24, 2019 |
| Military Personnel Subcommittee | Referred Jun 25, 2019 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 7, 2020Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 116-620, Part I.
- Jun 26, 2019Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 26, 2019Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
- Jun 25, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- Jun 25, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H5076H.R. 3429–3455 | — | Jun 24, 2019 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Sep 11, 2019H.R. 3429, HEARTS and Rural Relief ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 26, 2019
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 106, June 24, 2019, page H5076.
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2293 | Protecting Access to Wheelchairs Act | Related bill | Apr 15, 2019 |
| HR 2371 | HEARTS Act of 2019 | Related bill | Apr 26, 2019 |
| HR 3416 | HEARTS and Rural Relief Act | Identical bill | Jun 24, 2019 |
| HR 3431 | To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2021. | Related bill | Jun 25, 2019 |
| HR 3433 | ASC Payment Transparency Act of 2019 | Related bill | Jun 25, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for health equity and access for returning troops and servicemembers, to provide for ambulatory surgical payment transparency under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- HEARTS and Rural Relief Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Cancer
- Congressional oversight
- Disability and paralysis
- Disability assistance
- Genetics
- Government information and archives
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Military personnel and dependents
- Rural conditions and development
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 24, 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.
