Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID–19 Pandemic Act
Latest action · Dec 8, 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.
- IntroducedDec 7, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act
This bill makes several budgetary and technical changes in relation to Medicare.
Specifically, the bill continues to exempt Medicare from sequestration until March 31, 2022. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)
The bill also temporarily extends other provisions under Medicare, including a payment increase under the physician fee schedule.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Dec 7, 2021.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Original | Dec 7, 2021 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Dec 7, 2021 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 7, 2021 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 8, 2021 | |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Dec 7, 2021 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 7, 2021Introduced in House
- Dec 7, 2021Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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.
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 H7262H.R. 6143–6171 | — | Dec 7, 2021 |
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. 211, December 7, 2021, page H7262.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 610 | Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act | Related bill | Dec 10, 2021 |
| S 3344 | Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act | Related bill | Dec 8, 2021 |
| HR 6144 | Removing Waste and Protecting Medicare Act | Related bill | Nov 1, 2022 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for certain Medicare program extensions, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID–19 Pandemic Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Cancer
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Medicare
- Radiation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 7, 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.
