SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act
Latest action · May 20, 2021 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.
- IntroducedMay 19, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act
This bill allows for payment under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services of certain items and services that are furnished at off-campus outpatient departments. Specifically, the bill allows for payment of items and services for which payments to physician specialists (under the Medicare physician fee schedule) did not exceed $2 million during the previous year.
Cosponsors 37
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 19, 2021 to Jun 21, 2022; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NE | Adrian Smith | Original | May 19, 2021 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Jun 21, 2021 | |
| D-FL | Stephanie N. Murphy | Jun 21, 2021 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Jun 25, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Jul 20, 2021 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Jul 20, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Jul 20, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Jul 20, 2021 | |
| D-IA | Cynthia Axne | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Aug 20, 2021 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Aug 20, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Aug 24, 2021 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Oct 19, 2021 | |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Nov 9, 2021 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Nov 9, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Pete Aguilar | Nov 30, 2021 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Dec 8, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Dec 8, 2021 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Jan 18, 2022 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Jan 18, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Feb 7, 2022 | |
| R-CA | Young Kim | Feb 7, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Mar 1, 2022 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Mar 15, 2022 | |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Mar 15, 2022 | |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Mar 28, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Mar 28, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Mar 28, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Mar 28, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Katie Porter | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| R-AL | Mike Rogers | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| R-ND | Kelly Armstrong | May 17, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | May 24, 2022 | |
| D-MN | Angie Craig | Jun 21, 2022 |
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 May 19, 2021 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 20, 2021 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 19, 2021 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 20, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 19, 2021Introduced in House
- May 19, 2021Referred 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. 167, no. 87, May 19, 2021, page H2613.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4838 | SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act | Reintroduction of | Oct 26, 2019 |
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 allow payments under the Medicare program for certain items and services furnished by off-campus outpatient departments of a provider to be determined under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 19, 2021Introduced 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.
