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Version 01 · Reported to Senate with amendment(s) · Jul 30, 2015
Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This bill amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require physical therapists furnishing outpatient physical therapy services in a health professional shortage area, a medically underserved area, or a rural area to use specified locum tenens arrangements for payment purposes in the same manner as such arrangements are used to apply to physicians furnishing substitute physicians services for other physicians.
(Locum tenens [place holder], or substitute, physicians usually assume professional practices in the absence of a regular physician for reasons such as illness, pregnancy, vacation, or continuing medical education.)
People & committees
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] · R–IA
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 177.
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-98.
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-98.
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
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