[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 556 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 556

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical 
  therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens 
          arrangements under Medicare, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2015

   Mr. Bilirakis (for himself, Mr. Ben Ray Lujaan of New Mexico, Mr. 
Tonko, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. King of Iowa, and Mr. 
   Meehan) introduced the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical 
  therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens 
          arrangements under Medicare, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prevent Interruptions in Physical 
Therapy Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWING PHYSICAL THERAPISTS TO UTILIZE LOCUM TENENS 
              ARRANGEMENTS UNDER MEDICARE.

    (a) In General.--The first sentence of section 1842(b)(6) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395u(b)(6)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' before ``(H)''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``, and (I) in the case of outpatient physical 
        therapy services furnished by physical therapists, subparagraph 
        (D) of this sentence shall apply to such services and 
        therapists in the same manner as such subparagraph applies to 
        physicians' services furnished by physicians''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to services furnished after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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