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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3348" measure-id="id117hr3348" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2021-05-19" update-date="2021-10-19">
        <title>SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr3348v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2021-10-19">
            <action-date>2021-05-19</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><b>SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows for payment under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services of certain items and services that are furnished at off-campus outpatient departments. Specifically, the bill allows for payment of items and services for which payments to physician specialists (under the Medicare physician fee schedule) did not exceed $2 million during the previous year.</p>]]></summary-text>
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