3.0.0 2214 2023-01-11T13:39:08Z 2023-01-11T13:39:08Z Senate S 2017-12-11 115 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-12-11T21:24:30Z Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2017 115 1284 HR 2017-03-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 2017-12-11 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2017-12-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. N C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. 2017-12-11 True B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2018-02-07 False R000307 Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] PAT ROBERTS R KS 2018-02-07 False Health Health personnel Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care Medicare Health 00 2017-12-11 Introduced in Senate 2017-12-28T19:23:24Z Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2017

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants to provide hospice care under Medicare.

]]> Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2017 Display Title Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2017 Short Titles as Introduced Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2214is/xml/BILLS-115s2214is.xml 2017-12-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.