VotedBy VotedBy ⌕
Election Day · Tue, Nov 3See how your members of Congress voted →

H.R. 3506 · 112th Congress

Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act

Key: what the circles and colors mean

Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:

IntroducedPassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law (gold)Resolution agreed to (full, dark)Failed or vetoed (gray)

Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.

Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 112th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

TRR ReedSponsor
66 cosponsors · 38 D, 28 R
EPR Paulsen MTD Thompson JCD Carney BPD Pascrell CYR Young CRD Rangel PWD Welch CMD McCarthy LJR Jenkins DRR Reichert MHD Hirono TLR Latham PTR Tiberi EBD Blumenauer MRR Rogers JAD Altmire MMD Michaud DLD Loebsack SLR LaTourette RBR Bartlett LGD Gutiérrez RHR Hanna MRD Ross BFR Farenthold JGR Gerlach CHD Hanabusa LKD Kissell CPD Peterson TPR Platts RGD Grijalva PMR Meehan SSR Southerland SWR Womack MFD Fudge SRD Rothman TBD Baldwin GCD Connolly JHR Herrera Beutler RAD Andrews DDD DeGette CPD Pingree TRD Ryan PRR Roskam BJR Johnson DYR Young SKR King LRD Roybal-Allard RKD Kind CSR Stearns RHD Holt JLD Lewis SPR Pearce LBD Boswell JCD Courtney BLD Luján LWD Woolsey CSR Smith JMR Miller WOD Owens TGR Griffin BBD Braley TBD Bishop KCR Calvert MKD Kaptur EPD Perlmutter KYR Yoder

2 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the face-to-face encounter framework in hospice care.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Nov 22, 2011

Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the face-to-face encounter framework in hospice care. Allows a clinical nurse specialist, physician assistant, or other health professional (in addition to a hospice physician or a nurse practitioner, as under current law) to conduct the face-to-face encounter with an individual to determine continued eligibility for hospice care before the first 60-day (currently, 180-day) recertification period and each subsequent recertification period.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare Hospice Payment Reform demonstration program to test any revisions to the methodology for determining payment rates for routine home care and other hospice care services.

Sets at every three years the frequency of surveys of certified hospice program entities.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Hospice Evaluation and Legitimate Payment Act

Latest action (Nov 29, 2011): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Nov 22, 2011

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.