H.R. 7154 · 116th Congress
Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act
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BoyleSponsor14 cosponsors · 13 D, 1 R
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Buchanan
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Beatty
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Blunt Rochester
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Doyle
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Pascrell
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Rush
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Soto
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Sherrill
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Harder
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Napolitano
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Sewell
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Norton
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Rose
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Maloney8 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
This bill modifies payment and funding for certain outpatient therapy services under Medicare.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jun 11, 2020
Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act
This bill modifies payment and funding for certain outpatient therapy services under Medicare.
Among other things, the bill specifically includes physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other specified practitioners who are enrolled as Medicare suppliers as eligible suppliers who may receive COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief funds under the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
The bill also permanently allows physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to provide telehealth services under Medicare, and includes specified therapy services as eligible Medicare telehealth services. (Currently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is authorized to waive requirements for Medicare telehealth services during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19, and it has done so to allow all providers that are otherwise eligible to furnish in-person services under Medicare to also furnish telehealth services.)
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act
Latest action (Jun 11, 2020): Referred 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.
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Jun 11, 2020
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.